This volume of Poems and Poems in Prose inaugurates the Oxford English Texts Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, which will for the first time provide students of Wilde with scholarly and textually accurate texts of his complete oeuvre.

Wilde, glamorous and notorious, more famous as a playwright or prisoner than as a poet, invites readers of his verse to meet an unknown and intimate figure. The poetry of his formative years includes the haunting elegy to his young sister and the grieving lyric at the death of his father. The religious drama of his romance with Rome is captured here, as well as its resolution in his renewed love of ancient Greece.

He explores forbidden sexual desires, pays homage to the great theatre stars and poets of his day, and observes cityscapes with impressionist intensity. His final masterpiece, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, tells the painful story of his own prison experience and calls for universal compassion.

This edition of Wilde's verse presents the full range of his achievement as a poet.

POEMS(1881)

 Helas!

ELEUTHERIA

 Sonnet to Liberty

 Ave Imperatrix

 To Milton

 Louis Napoleon

 Sonnet

 Quantum Mutata

 Libermtis Sacra Fames

 Theoretikos

THE GARDEN OF EROS

 The Garden of Eros

ROSA MYSTICA

 Requiescat

 Sonnet on Approaching Italy

 San Miniato

 Ave Maria Gratia Plena

 Italia

 Sonnet

 Rome Unvisited

 Urbs Sacra Aeterna

 Sonnet

 Easter Day

 E Tenebris

 Vita Nuova

 Madonna Mia

 The New Helen

THE BURDEN OF ITYS

 The Burden of Itys

WIND FLOWERS

 Impression du Matin

 Magdalen Walks

 Athanasia

 Serenade for Music

 Endymion for Music

 La BeUa Donna Della Mia Mente

 Chanson

CHARMIDES

 Charmides

FLOWERS OF GOLD

 Impressions

 The Grave of Keats

 Theocritus

 In the Gold Room

 Ballade de Marguerite

 The Dole of the King's Daughter

 Amor InteUectualis

 Santa Decca

 A Vision

 Impression de Voyage

 The Grave of Shelley

 By the Amo

IMPRESSIONS DE THEATRE

 Fabien dei Franchi

 Phedre

 Written at the Lyceum Theatre

 Camma

PANTHEA

 Panthea

THE FOURTH MOVEMENT

 Impression

 At Verona

 Apologia

 Quia Multum Amavi

 Silentium Amoris

 Her Voice

 My Voice

 Taedium Vitae

HUMANITAD

 Humanitad

FLOWER OF LOVE

UNCOLLECTED POEMS

 From Spring Days to Winter

 The True Knowledge

 Impressions

 Under the Balcony

 The Harlot's House

 Le Jardin des Tuileries

 On the Sale by Auction of Keats's Love Letters

 The New Remorse

 Fantasies D&oratives

 Canzonet

 Symphony in Yellow

 In the Forest

 To My Wife

 With a Copy of A House of Pomegranates'

 ToL.L.

 Desespoir

 Pan

THE SPHINX

 The Sphinx

THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL

 The Ballad of Reading Gaol

RAVENNA

 Ravenna

NOTES

GLOSSARY

INDEX OF POEM TITLES

INDEX OF FIRST LINES