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 ...
1.O goat-foot God of Arcady!This modern world is grey and old,And what remains to us of thee?No more the shepherd ...
Set in this stormy Northern sea, Queen of these restless fields of tide, England! what shall men say of thee, ...
(To Ellen Terry) As one who poring on a Grecian urn Scans the fair shapes some Attic hand hath made, ...
(In memoriam C. T. W. Sometime trooper of the Royal Horse Guards obiit H.M. prison, Reading, Berkshire July 7, 1896) ...
The wild bee reels from bough to bough With his furry coat and his gauzy wing, Now in a lily-cup, ...
Rid of the world's injustice, and his pain, He rests at last beneath God's veil of blue: Taken from life ...
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 Marcel Schwob in friendship and in admiration) In a dim corner of my room for longer than my fancy ...
I. O goat-foot God of Arcady! This modern world is grey and old, And what remains to us of thee? ...
It is full winter now: the trees are bare, Save where the cattle huddle from the cold Beneath the pine, ...
To that gaunt House of Art which lacks for naught Of all the great things men have saved from Time, ...
See, I have climbed the mountain side Up to this holy house of God, Where once that Angel-Painter trod Who ...
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 ...
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