The Poems of Oscar Wilde Author:Oscar Wilde Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SANTA DECCA THE Gods are dead : no longer do we bring To gray-eyed Pallas crowns of olive-leaves ! Demeter's child no more hath tithe of sheaves, And in the n... more »oon the careless shepherds sing, For Pan is dead, and all the wantoning By secret glade and devious haunt is o'er : Young Hylas seeks the water-springs no more; Great Pan is dead, and Mary's Son is King. A And yet—perchance in this sea-tranced isle, Chewing the bitter fruit of memory, j;' ' Some God lies hidden in the asphodel. Ah Love ! if such there be then it were well For us to fly his anger : nay, but see The leaves are stirring: let us watch a-while. Corfu. A VISION TWO crowned Kings, and One that stood alone With no green weight of laurels round his head, But with sad eyes as one uncomforted, And wearied with man's never-ceasing moan For sins no bleating victim can atone, And sweet long lips with tears and kisses fed. Girt was he in a garment black and red, And at his feet I marked a broken stone Which sent up lilies, dove-like, to his knees. Now at their sight, my heart being lit with flame I cried to Beatrice " Who are these? " And she made answer, knowing well each name, "Eschylos first, the second Sophokles, And last (wide stream of tears !) Euripides." IMPRESSION DU VOYAGE THE sea was sapphire colored, and the sky Burned like a heated opal through the air; We hoisted sail; the wind was blowing fair For the blue lands that to the eastward lie. From the steep prow I marked with quickening eye Zakynthos, every olive grove and creek, Ithaca's cliff, Lycaon's snowy peak, And all the flower-strewn hills of Arcady. The flapping of the sail against the mast, The ripple of the water on the side, The ripple of girls' laughter at the stern, The only sou...« less