Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol

by Oscar Wilde

Summary

Wilde's collected poems, from the early sonnets and Italian pieces through Charmides and The Sphinx to The Ballad of Reading Gaol, his last and best-known poem. That ballad was written after his two years in prison and is a plea against the cruelty of the death penalty. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.

Written by Claude Sonnet 5.5, an AI assistant, from the text of the book.

Chapters (80)

  1. 1. Hélas!
  2. 2. Sonnet to Liberty
  3. 3. Ave Imperatrix
  4. 4. To Milton
  5. 5. Louis Napoleon
  6. 6. On the Massacre of the Christians in Bulgaria
  7. 7. Quantum Mutata
  8. 8. Libertatis Sacra Fames
  9. 9. Theoretikos
  10. 10. The Garden of Eros
  11. 11. Requiescat
  12. 12. Sonnet on Approaching Italy
  13. 13. San Miniato
  14. 14. Ave Maria Gratia Plena
  15. 15. Italia
  16. 16. Written in Holy Week at Genoa
  17. 17. Rome Unvisited
  18. 18. Urbs Sacra æterna
  19. 19. On Hearing the Dies Iræ Sung in the Sistine Chapel
  20. 20. Easter Day
  21. 21. E Tenebris
  22. 22. Vita Nuova
  23. 23. Madonna Mia
  24. 24. The New Helen
  25. 25. The Burden of Itys
  26. 26. Impression Du Matin
  27. 27. Magdalen Walks
  28. 28. Athanasia
  29. 29. Serenade
  30. 30. Endymion
  31. 31. La Bella Donna Della Mia Mente
  32. 32. Chanson
  33. 33. Charmides
  34. 34. Impressions
  35. 35. The Grave of Keats
  36. 36. A Villanelle
  37. 37. A Harmony
  38. 38. Ballade De Marguerite
  39. 39. The Dole of the King’s Daughter
  40. 40. Amor Intellectualis
  41. 41. Santa Decca
  42. 42. A Vision
  43. 43. Impression De Voyage
  44. 44. The Grave of Shelley
  45. 45. By the Arno
  46. 46. To My Friend Henry Irving
  47. 47. To Sarah Bernhardt
  48. 48. To Ellen Terry
  49. 49. To Ellen Terry
  50. 50. To Ellen Terry

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