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Sonnet to Liberty

Not that I love thy children, whose dull eyes See nothing save their own unlovely woe, Whose minds know nothing, […]

Ave Imperatrix

Set in this stormy Northern sea, Queen of these restless fields of tide, England! what shall men say of thee, […]

Theoretikos

This mighty empire hath but feet of clay: Of all its ancient chivalry and might Our little island is forsaken […]

Impression. Le Reveillon

OSCAR WILDE (1854-1900) Impression Le Réveillon The sky is laced with fitful red, The circling mists and shadows flee, The […]

Quantum Mutata

There was a time in Europe long ago When no man died for freedom anywhere, But England’s lion leaping from […]

Vita Nuova

I stood by the unvintageable sea Till the wet waves drenched face and hair with spray; The long red fires […]

Italia

Italia! thou art fallen, though with sheen Of battle-spears thy clamorous armies stride From the north Alps to the Sicilian […]

E Tenebris

Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach Thy hand, For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon […]

The Garden of Eros

It is full summer now, the heart of June; Not yet the sunburnt reapers are astir Upon the upland meadow […]

To Milton

Milton! I think thy spirit hath passed away From these white cliffs and high-embattled towers; This gorgeous fiery-coloured world of […]

Impression de Voyage

OSCAR WILDE (1854-1900) Impression de Voyage The sea was sapphire coloured, and the sky Burned like a heated opal through […]

Santa Decca

OSCAR WILDE (1854-1900) Santa Decca The Gods are dead: no longer do we bring To grey-eyed Pallas crowns of olive-leaves! […]

Rome Unvisited

I The corn has turned from grey to red, Since first my spirit wandered forth From the drear cities of […]

Urbs Sacra Aeterna

Rome! what a scroll of History thine has been; In the first days thy sword republican Ruled the whole world […]

Ave Maria Gratia Plena

Was this His coming! I had hoped to see A scene of wondrous glory, as was told Of some great […]

Requiescat

Tread lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow. All her bright golden […]

Holy Week at Genoa

I wandered through Scoglietto’s far retreat, The oranges on each o’erhanging spray Burned as bright lamps of gold to shame […]

Aforyzmy cześć 2

” Pytania nigdy nie są niedyskretne. Odpowiedzi czasami tak.” ” Język jest ojcem, a nie dzieckiem myśli. ” ” Młodość […]

Louis Napoleon

Eagle of Austerlitz! where were thy wings When far away upon a barbarous strand, In fight unequal, by an obscure […]

Libertatis Sacra Fames

Albeit nurtured in democracy, And liking best that state republican Where every man is Kinglike and no man Is crowned […]

The Preface

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art’s aim. The critic […]

Aforyzmy cześć 1

” Zawsze przyjemnie jest być oczekiwanym i nie przybyć. ” ” Zepsuta kobieta należy do tego rodzaju istot, których mężczyźni […]

Bezgwiezdny

Zachód słońca zaślepiający dzień Moje oczy widzą złoto Ale wzrok zawrca w głąb Widzę tylko biblijną czerń, bez gwiazd Błękit […]

The Ballad of Reading Gaol

In memoriam C. T. W. Sometime trooper of the Royal Horse Guards obiit H. M. prison, Reading, Berkshire July 7, […]

Helas!

To drift with every passion till my soul Is a stringed lute on which can winds can play, Is it […]

San Miniato

See, I have climbed the mountain side Up to this holy house of God, Where once that Angel-Painter trod Who […]

Easter Day

The silver trumpets rang across the Dome: The people knelt upon the ground with awe: And borne upon the necks […]