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 ...
From his childhood he had been as one filled with the perfectknowledge of God, and even while he was yet ...
To that gaunt House of Art which lacks for naughtOf all the great things men have saved from Time,The withered ...
Sweet, I blame you not, for mine the fault was, had I not been made of commonclayI had climbed the ...
To drift with every passion till my soulIs a stringed lute on which all winds can play,Is it for this ...
It is full summer now, the heart of June; Not yet the sunburnt reapers are astir Upon the upland meadow ...
(Newdigate prize poem recited in the Sheldonian Theatre Oxford June 26th, 1878. To my friend George Fleming author of 'The ...
To drift with every passion till my soul Is a stringed lute on which can winds can play, Is it ...
It is full winter now: the trees are bare, Save where the cattle huddle from the cold Beneath the pine, ...
I. The corn has turned from grey to red, Since first my spirit wandered forth From the drear cities of ...
To that gaunt House of Art which lacks for naught Of all the great things men have saved from Time, ...
There was a time in Europe long ago When no man died for freedom anywhere, But England's lion leaping from ...
(To Ellen Terry) In the lone tent, waiting for victory, She stands with eyes marred by the mists of pain, ...
Where hast thou been since round the walls of Troy The sons of God fought in that great emprise? Why ...
Nay, let us walk from fire unto fire, From passionate pain to deadlier delight, - I am too young to ...
Within this restless, hurried, modern world We took our hearts' full pleasure - You and I, And now the white ...
(In memoriam C. T. W. Sometime trooper of the Royal Horse Guards obiit H.M. prison, Reading, Berkshire July 7, 1896) ...
I. He was a Grecian lad, who coming home With pulpy figs and wine from Sicily Stood at his galley's ...
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