Transcribed from the 1913 Methuen & Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org POEMS BY OSCAR WILDE WITH THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL * * * * * METHUEN & CO. LTD. 36 ESSEX STREET W.C. LONDON _Twelfth Edition_ _First Published_— _Ravenna_ _1878_ _Poems_ _1881_ ,, _Fifth Edition_ _1882_ _The Sphinx_ _1894_ _The Ballad of Reading Gaol_ _1898_ _First Issued by Methuen and Co._ (_Limited _March 1908_ Editions on Handmade Paper and Japanese Vellum_) _Seventh Edition_ (_F’cap. 8vo_). _September 1909_ _Eighth Edition_ ( ,, ,, ) _November 1909_ _Ninth Edition_ ( ,, ,, ) _December 1909_ _Tenth Edition_ ( ,, ,, ) _November 1910_ _Eleventh Edition_ ( ,, ,, ) _December 1911_ _Twelfth Edition_ ( ,, ,, ) _April 1913_ NOTE _This collection of Wilde’s Poems contains the volume of_ 1881 _in its entirety_, ‘_The Sphinx_’, ‘_The Ballad of Reading Gaol_,’ _and_ ‘_Ravenna_.’ _Of the Uncollected Poems published in the Uniform Edition of_ 1908, _a few_, _including the Translations from the Greek and the Polish_, _are omitted_. _Two new poems_, ‘_Désespoir_’ _and_ ‘_Pan_,’_ which I have recently discovered in manuscript_, _are now printed for the first time_. _Particulars as to the original publication of each poem will be found in_ ‘_A Bibliography of the Poems of Oscar Wilde_,’ _by Stuart Mason_, _London_ 1907. _ROBERT ROSS_. CONTENTS