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Oscar Wilde Poems
- Her Voice THE wild bee reels from bough to ...
- A Vision Two crowned Kings, and One that stood alone With no...
- Flower Of Love Sweet, I blame you not, for mine the fault ...
- The Ballad Of Reading Gaol He did not wear his scarlet ...
- Amor Intellectualis OFT have we trod the vales of ...
- Ava Maria Plena Gratia WAS this His coming! I had hoped to ...
- A Lament O well for him who lives at ease With garnered gold...
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin, the son of an eye-surgeon and a literary hostess and writer (known under the pseudonym "Speranza"). After studying at Trinity College, Dublin, Wilde went to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he achieved a double first and won the Newdigate prize for a poem Ravenna.
While at Oxford he became notorious for his flamboyant wit, talent, charm and aestheticism, and this reputation soon won him a place in London society. Bunthorne, the Fleshly Poet in Gilbert and Sullivan's opera Patience was widely thought to be a caricature of Wilde (though in fact it was intended as a skit of Rosetti) and Wilde seems to have consciously ... more »
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''I have nothing to declare except my genius.''
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. Attributed in Oscar Wilde, ch. 6, Richard Ellman (1987). Remark at the New York Customs, ...
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''For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.''
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. repr. In Aristotle at Afternoon Tea: The Rare Oscar Wilde (1991). "London Models," English Il...
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''The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.''
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. Miss Prism, in The Importance of Being Earnest, act 2 (1895). Speaking of her own novel.
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''The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.''
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, ch. 1 (1891).
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''By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful.''
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. Miss Prism, in The Importance of Being Earnest, act 2.
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,
In his wandering;
Sit closer love: it was here I trow
I made that vow,
Swore that two lives should be like one
As long as the sea-gull loved the sea,
As long as the sunflower sought the sun,--
It shall be, I said, for eternity
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An excellent poet.
You are the one who could play with words. Master of English language.
Oscar wilde is still the Lord of Language no budy could ever replace him.
His imagery and diction, everything is so extravagant and incredible. He will always remain as one of my favorites.
Sounds as if he is quoting Dante.
Every person has some genius-ness in his cells...
brain...hands or body...
Needs the chance to appear
Needs the luck...
You have...I have
As small as it can be
Even very small
It is still geniusty...!
Wilde cryptic word spinning to somewhere in nowhere.
He was no genius, a bewildered poet who thought he was a genius.
Did the poem liberate him or anyone from its cage of flowery words bespeckled with Greek gods and goddesses?
I tend to doubt it. A love for his own intellect, displayful of a pruriant pride in pining.
He was a literary genius. I enjoy his poetry immensely. Conspirative Nature stole his life prematurely.