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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde

La Fruite De La Lune

To outer senses there is peace,
A dreamy peace on either hand
Deep silence in the shadowy land,
Deep silence where the shadows cease.

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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde

La Bella Donna Della Mia Mente

My limbs are wasted with a flame,
My feet are sore with travelling,
For, calling on my Lady's name,
My lips have now forgot to sing.

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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde

Italia

Italia! thou art fallen, though with sheen
Of battle-spears thy clamorous armies stride
From the north Alps to the Sicilian tide!
Ay! fallen, th…

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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde

In The Gold Room - A Harmony

Her ivory hands on the ivory keys
Strayed in a fitful fantasy,
Like the silver gleam when the poplar trees
Rustle their pale-leaves listlessly,<…

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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde

Impression Du Matin

The Thames nocturne of blue and gold
Changed to a Harmony in grey:
A barge with ochre-coloured hay
Dropt from the wharf: and chill and cold

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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde

In the forest

Out of the mid-wood's twilight
Into the meadow's dawn,
Ivory limbed and brown-eyed,
Flashes my Faun!

He skips through the…

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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde

Impression De Voyage

The sea was sapphire coloured, and the sky
Burned like a heated opal through the air;
We hoisted sail; the wind was blowing fair
For the blue la…

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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde

Her Voice

The wild bee reels from bough to bough
With his furry coat and his gauzy wing,
Now in a lily-cup, and now
Setting a jacinth bell a-swing,

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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde

Endymion

The apple trees are hung with gold,
And birds are loud in Arcady,
The sheep lie bleating in the fold,
The wild goat runs across the wold,

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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde

From Spring Days To Winter (For Music)

In the glad springtime when leaves were green,
O merrily the throstle sings!
I sought, amid the tangled sheen,
Love whom mine eyes had never see…

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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde

Easter Day

The silver trumpets rang across the Dome:
The people knelt upon the ground with awe:
And borne upon the necks of men I saw,
Like some great God,…

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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde

Desespoir

The seasons send their ruin as they go,
For in the spring the narciss shows its head
Nor withers till the rose has flamed to red,
And in the aut…

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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde

Chanson

A ring of gold and a milk-white dove
Are goodly gifts for thee,
And a hempen rope for your own love
To hang upon a tree.

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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde

Canzonet

I have no store
Of gryphon-guarded gold;
Now, as before,
Bare is the shepherd's fold.
Rubies nor pearls
Have I to gem thy …

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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde

Ave Maria Gratia Plena

Was this His coming! I had hoped to see
A scene of wondrous glory, as was told
Of some great God who in a rain of gold
Broke open bars and fell …

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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde

Apologia

Is it thy will that I should wax and wane,
Barter my cloth of gold for hodden grey,
And at thy pleasure weave that web of pain
Whose brightest t…

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William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth

Yarrow Unvisited

Yarrow Unvisited
. From Stirling castle we had seen
The mazy Forth unravelled;
Had trod the banks of Clyde, and Tay,
And with the Tweed had trave…

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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde

Amor Intellectualis

Oft have we trod the vales of Castaly
And heard sweet notes of sylvan music blown
From antique reeds to common folk unknown:
And often launched …

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William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth

Written in London. September,

Written in London. September,
. O Friend! I know not which way I must look
For comfort, being, as I am, opprest,
To think that now our life is only dres…

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William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth

Written With a Pencil Upon a Stone In The Wall of The House, On The Island

Written With a Pencil Upon a Stone In The Wall of The House, On The Island
at Grasmere
Rude is this Edifice, and Thou hast seen
Buildings, albeit rude, t…

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William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth

Written in Early Spring

Written in Early Spring
I heard a thousand blended notes
While in a grove I sat reclined,
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts
Bring sad tho…

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William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth

With ships the sea was sprinkled

With ships the sea was sprinkled
WITH ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh,
Like stars in heaven, and joyously it showed;
Some lying fast at anchor i…

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William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth

Wishing-gate, The

Wishing-gate, The
Hope rules a land forever green:
All powers that serve the bright-eyed Queen
Are confident and gay;
Clouds at her bidding disap…

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William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth

Waterfall and The Eglantine, The

Waterfall and The Eglantine, The
"Begone, thou fond presumptuous Elf,"
Exclaimed an angry Voice,
"Nor dare to thrust thy foolish self
Between me …

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