Transcribed from 1913 Methuen and Co. edition by David Price, email
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CHARMIDES
AND OTHER POEMS
BY
OSCAR WILDE
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METHUEN & CO. LTD.
36 ESSEX STREET W.C.
LONDON
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_This volume was first published in 1913_
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_Wilde’s Poems_, _a selection of which is given in this volume_, _were
first published in volume form in_ 1881, _and were reprinted four times
before the end of_ 1882. _A new Edition with additional poems_,
_including Ravenna_, _The Sphinx_, _and The Ballad of Reading Goal_, _was
first published_ (_limited issues on hand-made paper and Japanese
vellum_) _by Methuen & Co. in March_ 1908. _A further Edition_ (_making
the seventh_) _with some omissions from the issue of_ 1908, _but
including two new poems_, _was published in September_, 1909. _Eighth
Edition_, _November_ 1909. _Ninth Edition_, _December_ 1909. _Tenth
Edition_, _December_ 1910. _Eleventh Edition_, _December_, 1911.
_Twelfth Edition_, _May_, 1913.
_A further selection of the poems_, _including The Ballad of Reading
Gaol_, _is published uniform with this volume_.
CONTENTS
PAGE
CHARMIDES 9
REQUIESCAT 67
SAN MINIATO 69
ROME UNVISITED 71
HUMANITAD 77
LOUIS NAPOLEON 114
ENDYMION 116
LE JARDIN 119
LA MER 120
LE PANNEAU 121
LES BALLONS 124
CANZONET 126
LE JARDIN DES TUILERIES 129
PAN: DOUBLE VILLANELLE 131
IN THE FOREST 135
SYMPHONY IN YELLOW 136
SONNETS
HÉLAS! 139
TO MILTON 140
ON THE MASSACRE OF THE CHRISTIANS IN BULGARIA 141
HOLY WEEK AT GENOA 142
URBS SACRA ÆTERNA 143
E TENEBRIS 144
AT VERONA 145
ON THE SALE BY AUCTION OF KEATS’ LOVE LETTERS 146
THE NEW REMORSE 147