Ballad of Reading Gaol II (Oscar Wilde Poems)
Version IIHe did not wear his scarlet coat,For blood and wine are red,And blood and wine were on his handsWhen ...
Version IIHe did not wear his scarlet coat,For blood and wine are red,And blood and wine were on his handsWhen ...
Version IHe did not wear his scarlet coat,For blood and wine are red,And blood and wine were on his handsWhen ...
'Neath saffron stars and satin skies, dark-blue, Between dim sylvan isles, a happy two. We sailed, and from the siren-haunted shore, All mystic ...
High on a rocky cliff did once a gray old castle stand,From whence rough-bearded chieftains led their vassals--ruled the land.For centuries ...
Beside the saffron of a curtain, litWith broidered flowers, below a golden fringeThat on her silver shoulder made a glow,Like ...
WHEN south winds smelt of earth and brooks ran clear,I made a little pipe of oaten straw,From which of old ...
Now that the chill October day is declining,Pull the blinds, draw each voluminous curtainTill the room is full of gloom ...
O JUNE has her diamonds, her diamonds of sheen, Meet for a queen's neck, if Death had e'er a queen! ...
The silence of the white, bedewed way Was flanked still with the songs of amorous birds, Bruiting their joy for ...
The four winds of earth, the North, South, East, and West,Shrieked and groaned, sobbed and wailed, like the soul of ...
Apple-green west and an orange bar, And the crystal eye of a lone, one star . . . And, "Child, ...
I LEGEND Long ago Apollo called to Aristæus, youngest of the shepherds, Saying, "I will make you keeper of my ...
(In memoriam C. T. W. Sometime trooper of the Royal Horse Guards obiit H.M. prison, Reading, Berkshire July 7, 1896) ...
I lie here thinking of you:- the stain of love is upon the world! Yellow, yellow, yellow it eats into ...
PART ONE The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed ...
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