On the Recent Sale by Auction of Keat's Love-Letters
These are the letters which Endymion wrote
To one he loved in secret and apart,
And now the brawlers of the auction mart
Bargain and bid for each poor blotted note,
Aye! for each separate pulse of passion quote
The merchant's price! I think they love not art
Who break the crystal of a poet's heart,
That small and sickly eyes may glare or gloat.
Is it not said, that many years ago,
In a far Eastern town some soldiers ran
With torches through the midnight, and began
To wrangle for mean raiment, and to throw
Dice for the garments of a wretched man,
Not knowing the God's wonder, or his woe?
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 copses singing,
And his shadow dances along,
And I know not which I should follow,
Shadow or song!
O Hunter, snare me his shadow!
O Nightingale, catch me his strain!
Else moonstruck with music and madness
I track him in vain!
Oscar Wilde
Other Poems by Oscar Wilde
Under The Balcony, Ravenna,
Roses And Rue, The Sphinx,
The Ballad Of Reading Gaol,
Flower of Love, The Grave of Shelley,
Serenade, The Grave Of Keats,
Queen Henrietta Maria,
Quotes by Oscar Wilde
The best way to appreciate your job is
to imagine yourself without one.
- Oscar Wilde
It is better to have a permanent income
than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde
Seriousness is the only
refuge of the shallow.
- Oscar Wilde
No man is rich enough to
buy back his past.
- Oscar Wilde
A man can't be too careful in the choice
of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde
I don't at all like knowing what people
say of me behind my back. It makes me far
too conceited.
- Oscar Wilde
Always forgive your enemies. Nothing
annoys them more.
Oscar Wilde
The only way to get rid of a temptation
is to yield to it.
Oscar Wilde
To love oneself is the beginning of a
lifelong romance.
- Oscar Wilde
Some cause happiness wherever they go;
others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde
There are only two tragedies in life:
one is not getting what one wants, and
the other is getting it.
- Oscar Wilde
Poems by Famous Classical Poets
Love In The City
Wedding Customs Traditions and Superstions
Love Romance and Kisses
Romantic Love Quotes
Love and Romance Greeting Cards
