The Complete Poems by Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)

By Oscar Wilde

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• Release date: Jul 17, 2017
• ISBN: 9781786561626

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born on the 16th October 1854 and died on the 30th November 1900. He was an Irish playwright, poet, and author of numerous short stories and one novel. Known for his biting wit, he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day. Several of his plays continue to be widely performed, especially The Importance of Being Earnest.

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The Complete Works of

OSCAR WILDE

VOLUME 10 OF 41

The Complete Poems

Parts Edition

By Delphi Classics, 2013

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‘The Complete Poems’

Oscar Wilde: Parts Edition (in 41 parts)

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Oscar Wilde: Parts Edition

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OSCAR WILDE

IN 41 VOLUMES

Parts Edition Contents

The Plays

1, Vera

2, The Duchess of Padua

3, Lady Windermere’s Fan

4, A Woman of No Importance

5, Salomé

6, An Ideal Husband

7, The Importance of Being Earnest

8, La Sainte Courtisane

9, A Florentine Tragedy

The Poetry

10, The Complete Poems

The Novel

11, The Picture of Dorian Gray - the Original 13 Chapter Version

12, The Picture of Dorian Gray - the Revised 20 Chapter Version

The Short Stories

13, The Portrait of Mr. W. H.

14, The Happy Prince and Other Tales

15, A House of Pomegranates

16, Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories

The Non-Fiction

17, The Decay of Lying

18, Pen, Pencil and Poison - a Study in Green

19, The Critic as Artist

20, The Truth of Masks

21, The Rise of Historical Criticism

22, The English Renaissance of Art

23, House Decoration

24, Art and the Handicraftsman

25, Lecture to Art Students

26, London Models

27, Poems in Prose

28, The Soul of Man Under Socialism

29, Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young

30, A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated

31, De Profundis

32, Oscar Wilde’s Letter to Robert Browning

33, Personal Impressions of America

34, The Decorative Arts

35, The House Beautiful

36, The Truth of Masks

The Journalism

37, The Articles and Reviews

Apocrypha

38, Teleny

The Biographies

39, Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions by Frank Harris

40, Memories of Oscar Wilde by G. Bernard Shaw

41, Oscar Wilde: an Idler’s Impression by Edgar Saltus

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The Complete Poems

IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER

Ye Shall Be Gods

Ravenna

The True Knowledge

A Lament

Wasted Days

Désespoir

Lotus Leaves

Impressions

Le Jardin

La Mer

Under the Balcony

A Fragment

Le Jardin Des Tuileries

On the Sale by Auction of Keats’ Love Letters

The New Remorse

An Inscription

The Harlot’s House

The Burden of Itys

Charmides

Eleutheria

Heart’s Yearnings

The Little Ship

Ave Imperatrix

To Milton

Louis Napoleon

Sonnet

Quantum Mutata

Libertatis Sacra Fames

Theoretikos

Flowers of Gold

Les Silhouettes

La Fuite de la Lune

The Grave of Keats

Theocritus

In the Gold Room

Ballade De Marguerite

The Dole of the King’s Daughter

Love Song

Tristitiae

Amor Intellectualis

Santa Decca

A Vision

Impression De Voyage

The Grave of Shelley

By the Arno

From Spring Days to Winter

Flower or Love

The Fourth Movement

Impression: Le Reveillon

At Verona

Apologia

Quia Multum Amavi

Silentium Amoris

Her Voice

My Voice

Taedium Vitae

The Garden of Eros

Humanitad

Panthea

Rosa Mystica

Requiescat

Salve Saturnia Tellus

Sunrise: Symphony in Yellow

The Theatre at Argos

Sen Artysty; Or, The Artist’s Dream

Pan - Double Villanelle

San Miniato

Les Balloons

Ave Maria Plena Gratia

To My Wife - With A Copy Of My Poems

With A Copy Of ‘A House Of Pomegranates’

Italia

Sonnet: I wandered in Scoglietto’s green retreat

Rome Unvisited

Urbs Sacra Aeterna

Sonnet: On Hearing the Dies Irae Sung in the Sistine Chapel

Easter Day

E Tenebris

Vita Nuova

Roses and Rue

Madonna Mia

The New Helen

Impressions De Theatre

Phedre

Portia

Queen Henrietta Maria

Camma

Song Of The Clouds

Chorus Of The Cloud-maiden: Antistrophe

Wind Flowers

Magdalen Walks

Athanasia

Serenade For Music

Cry Woe, Woe And Let The Good Prevail

Endymion

La Bella Donna Del Mia Mente

Canzonet

La Dame Jaune

Remorse

Chanson

The Sphinx

In the Forest

The Ballad Of Reading Gaol

LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

A Fragment

A Lament

A Vision

Amor Intellectualis

An Inscription

Apologia

At Verona

Athanasia

Ave Imperatrix

Ave Maria Plena Gratia

Ballade De Marguerite

By the Arno

Camma

Canzonet

Chanson

Charmides

Chorus Of The Cloud-maiden: Antistrophe

Cry Woe, Woe And Let The Good Prevail

Désespoir

E Tenebris

Easter Day

Eleutheria

Endymion

Flower or Love

Flowers of Gold

From Spring Days to Winter

Heart’s Yearnings

Her Voice

Humanitad

Impression De Voyage

Impression: Le Reveillon

Impressions

Impressions De Theatre

In the Forest

In the Gold Room

Italia

La Bella Donna Del Mia Mente

La Dame Jaune

La Fuite de la Lune

La Mer

Le Jardin

Le Jardin Des Tuileries

Les Balloons

Les Silhouettes

Libertatis Sacra Fames

Lotus Leaves

Louis Napoleon

Love Song

Madonna Mia

Magdalen Walks

My Voice

On the Sale by Auction of Keats’ Love Letters

Pan - Double Villanelle

Panthea

Phedre

Portia

Quantum Mutata

Queen Henrietta Maria

Quia Multum Amavi

Ravenna

Remorse

Requiescat

Rome Unvisited

Rosa Mystica

Roses and Rue

Salve Saturnia Tellus

San Miniato

Santa Decca

Sen Artysty; Or, The Artist’s Dream

Serenade For Music

Silentium Amoris

Song Of The Clouds

Sonnet

Sonnet: I wandered in Scoglietto’s green retreat

Sonnet: On Hearing the Dies Irae Sung in the Sistine Chapel

Sunrise: Symphony in Yellow

Taedium Vitae

The Ballad Of Reading Gaol

The Burden of Itys

The Dole of the King’s Daughter

The Fourth Movement

The Garden of Eros

The Grave of Keats

The Grave of Shelley

The Harlot’s House

The Little Ship

The New Helen

The New Remorse

The Sphinx

The Theatre at Argos

The True Knowledge

Theocritus

Theoretikos

To Milton

To My Wife - With A Copy Of My Poems

Tristitiae

Under the Balcony

Urbs Sacra Aeterna

Vita Nuova

Wasted Days

Wind Flowers

With A Copy Of ‘A House Of Pomegranates’

Ye Shall Be Gods

Ye Shall Be Gods

Before the dividing of days

Or the singing of summer or spring

God from the dust did raise

A splendid and goodly thing:

Man – from the womb of the land,

Man – from the sterile sod

Torn by a terrible hand –

Formed in the image of God.

But the life of man is a sorrow

And death a relief from pain,

For love only lasts till tomorrow

And life without love is vain.

ΣTPOΦH

And your strength will wither like grass

Scorched by a pitiless sun,

And the might of your hands will pass

And the sands of your life will run.

O gods not of saving but sorrow

Whose joy is in weeping of men,

Who shall lend thee their life, or who borrow

From others to give thee again?

O gods ever wrathful and tearless,

O gods not of night but of day,

Though your faces be frowning and fearless

Thy kingdom shall pass – men say.

ANTIΣTPOΦH

The spirit of man is arisen

And crowned as a mighty King.

The people have broken from prison

And the voices once voiceless now sing.

Cry aloud, O dethroned and defeated,

Cry aloud for the fading of might,

Too long were ye feared and entreated,

Too long did men worship thy light.

Aye, weep for your crimes without number,

The loving and luring of men,

For your greatness is sunken in slumber,

Your light will n’er lighten again.

ΣTPOΦH B

But as many a lovely flower

Is born of a sterile seed,

In a fatal and fearful hour

There grew from this creedless breed

Love – fostered in flame and in fire

That dies but to blossom again,

Love – ever distilling desire

Like wine with the eyelids of men.

We kneel to the great Iapygian,

We bow to the Lampsacene’s shrine,

For hers is the only religion,

And hers to entice and entwine –

ANTIΣTPOΦH B

There once was another, men tell us,

The giver and taker of life,

A lovingless God and a jealous

Whose joy was in weeping and strife.

He is gone; and his temple ’tis sunken

In ashes and fallen in dust,

For the souls of the people are drunken

With dreams of the Lady of Lust –

We kneel to the Cyprian Mother,

We take up our lyres and sing,

‘Thou are crowned with the crown of another,

Thou are throned where another was King.’

Ravenna

This ballad won the Newdigate Prize in 1878.

I.

A year ago I breathed the Italian air, —

And yet, methinks this northern Spring is fair,-

These fields made golden with the flower of March,

The throstle singing on the feathered larch,

The cawing rooks, the wood-doves fluttering by,

The little clouds that race across the sky;

And fair the violet’s gentle drooping head,

The primrose, pale for love uncomforted,

The rose that burgeons on the climbing briar,

The crocus-bed, (that seems a moon of fire

Round-girdled with a purple marriage-ring);

And all the flowers of our English Spring,

Fond snowdrops, and the bright-starred daffodil.

Up starts the lark beside the murmuring mill,

And breaks the gossamer-threads of early dew;

And down the river, like a flame of blue,

Keen as an arrow flies the water-king,

While the brown linnets in the greenwood sing.

A year ago! — it seems a little time

Since last I saw that lordly southern clime,

Where flower and fruit to purple radiance blow,

And like bright lamps the fabled apples glow.

Full Spring it was — and by rich flowering vines,

Dark olive-groves and noble forest-pines,

I rode at will; the moist glad air was sweet,

The white road rang beneath my horse’s feet,

And musing on Ravenna’s ancient name,

I watched the day till, marked with wounds of flame,

The turquoise sky to burnished gold was turned.

O how my heart with boyish passion burned,

When far away across the sedge and mere

I saw that Holy City rising clear,

Crowned with her crown of towers! — On and on

I galloped, racing with the setting sun,

And ere the crimson after-glow was passed,

I stood within Ravenna’s walls at last!

II.

How strangely still! no sound of life or joy

Startles the air; no laughing shepherd-boy

Pipes on his reed, nor ever through the day

Comes the glad sound of children at their play:

O sad, and sweet, and silent! surely here

A man might dwell apart from troublous fear,

Watching the tide of seasons as they flow

From amorous Spring to Winter’s rain and snow,

And have no thought of sorrow; — here, indeed,

Are Lethe’s waters, and that fatal weed

Which makes a man forget his fatherland.

Ay! amid lotus-meadows dost thou stand,

Like Proserpine, with poppy-laden head,

Guarding the holy ashes of the dead.

For though thy brood of warrior sons hath ceased,

Thy noble dead are with thee! — they at least

Are faithful to thine honour:- guard them well,

O childless city! for a mighty spell,

To wake men’s hearts to dreams of things sublime,

Are the lone tombs where rest the Great of Time.

III.

Yon lonely pillar, rising on the plain,

Marks where the bravest knight of France was slain, —

The Prince of chivalry, the Lord of war,

Gaston de Foix: for some untimely star

Led him against thy city, and he fell,

As falls some forest-lion fighting well.

Taken from life while life and love were new,

He lies beneath God’s seamless veil of blue;

Tall lance-like reeds wave sadly o’er his head,

And oleanders bloom to deeper red,

Where his bright youth flowed crimson on the ground.

Look farther north unto that broken mound, —

There, prisoned now within a lordly tomb

Raised by a daughter’s hand, in lonely gloom,

Huge-limbed Theodoric, the Gothic king,

Sleeps after all his weary conquering.

Time hath not