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Title: Poems
with the Ballad of Reading Gaol
Author: Oscar Wilde
Editor: Robert Ross
Release Date: March 31, 2013 [eBook #1057]
[This file was first posted on September 24, 1997]
[Last updated: July 2, 2014]
Language: English
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***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK POEMS***
Transcribed from the 1913 Methuen & Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
POEMS
BY
OSCAR WILDE
WITH THE BALLAD OF
READING GAOL
METHUEN & CO. LTD.
36 ESSEX STREET W.C.
LONDON
Twelfth Edition
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Ravenna |
1878 |
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Poems |
1881 |
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,, Fifth Edition |
1882 |
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The Sphinx |
1894 |
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The Ballad of Reading Gaol |
1898 |
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First Issued by Methuen and Co. (Limited Editions on Handmade Paper and Japanese Vellum) |
March 1908 |
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Seventh Edition (F’cap. 8vo). |
September 1909 |
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Eighth Edition ( ,, ,, ) |
November 1909 |
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Ninth Edition ( ,, ,, ) |
December 1909 |
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Tenth Edition ( ,, ,, ) |
November 1910 |
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Eleventh Edition ( ,, ,, ) |
December 1911 |
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Twelfth Edition ( ,, ,, ) |
April 1913 |
NOTE
This collection of Wilde’s Poems contains the volume of 1881 in its entirety, ‘The Sphinx’, ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol,’ and ‘Ravenna.’ Of the Uncollected Poems published in the Uniform Edition of 1908, a few, including the Translations from the Greek and the Polish, are omitted. Two new poems, ‘Désespoir’ and ‘Pan,’ which I have recently discovered in manuscript, are now printed for the first time. Particulars as to the original publication of each poem will be found in ‘A Bibliography of the Poems of Oscar Wilde,’ by Stuart Mason, London 1907.
Robert Ross.
CONTENTS
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POEMS (1881): |
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Hélas! | |
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Eleutheria: | ||
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Sonnet To Liberty | |
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Ave Imperatrix | |
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To Milton | |
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Louis Napoleon | |
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Sonnet on the Massacre of the Christians in Bulgaria | |
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Quantum Mutata | |
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Libertatis Sacra Fames | |
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Theoretikos | |
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The Garden of Eros | ||
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Rosa Mystica: | ||
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Requiescat | |
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Sonnet on approaching Italy | |
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San Miniato | |
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Ave Maria Gratia Plena | |
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Italia | |
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Sonnet written in Holy Week at Genoa | |
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Rome Unvisited | |
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Sonnet on hearing the Dies Iræ sung in the Sistine Chapel | |
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Easter Day | |
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E Tenebris | |
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Vita Nuova | |
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Madonna Mia | |
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The New Helen | |
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The Burden Of Itys | ||
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Wind Flowers: | ||
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Impression du Matin | |
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Magdalen Walks | |
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Athanasia | |
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Serenade | |
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Endymion | |
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La Bella Donna della mia Mente | |
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Chanson | |
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Charmides | ||
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Flowers of Gold: |
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Impressions: I. Les Silhouettes | |
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II. La Fuite de la Lune | |
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The Grave of Keats | |
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Theocritus: A Villanelle | |
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In the Gold Room: A Harmony | |
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Ballade de Marguerite | |
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The Dole of the King’s Daughter | |
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Amor Intellectualis | |
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Santa Decca | |
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A Vision | |
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Impression de Voyage | |
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By the Arno | |
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Impressions de Théàtre: | ||
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Fabien dei Franchi | |
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Phèdre | |
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Sonnets written at the Lyceum Theatre | |
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I. Portia | |
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II. Queen Henrietta Maria | |
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III. Camma | |
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Panthea | ||
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The Fourth Movement: | ||
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Impression: Le Réveillon | |
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At Verona | |
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Apologia | |
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Quia Multum Amavi | |
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Silentium Amoris | |
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Her Voice | |
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My Voice | |
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Tædium Vitæ | |
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Humanitad | ||
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Flower of Love: |
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ΓΛΥΚΥΠΙΚΡΟΣ ΕΡΩΣ | |
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UNCOLLECTED POEMS (1876–1893): | |||
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From Spring Days to Winter | |
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Tristitiæ | |
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The True Knowledge | |
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II. La Mer | |
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Under the Balcony | |
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The Harlot’s House | |
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Le Jardin des Tuileries | |
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On the Sale by Auction of Keats’ Love Letters | |
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The New Remorse | |
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Fantasisies Décoratives: I. Le Panneau | |
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II. Les Ballons | |
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Canzonet | |
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Symphony in Yellow | |
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In the Forest | |
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To my Wife: With a Copy of my Poems | |
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With a Copy of ‘A House of Pomegranates’ | |
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Roses and Rue | |
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Désespoir | |
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Pan: Double Villanelle | |
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THE SPHINX (1894) | |||
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THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL (1898) | |||
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RAVENNA (1878) | |||