Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Name: Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Author: Wilde, Oscar

Wilde, Oscar

Poetry; Prisons -- Poetry

Adieu!  Adieu! yon silver lamp, the moon,
   Which turns our midnight into perfect noon,
   Doth surely light thy towers, guarding well
   Where Dante sleeps, where Byron loved to dwell.

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         Printed by T. and A. CONSTABLE, Printers to His Majesty
                    at the Edinburgh University Press

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Poems, with The Ballad of Reading GaolWilde, Oscar

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Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Wilde, Oscar

Poetry; Prisons -- Poetry

Adieu!  Adieu! yon silver lamp, the moon,
   Which turns our midnight into perfect noon,
   Doth surely light thy towers, guarding well
   Where Dante sleeps, where Byron loved to dwell.

                                * * * * *

         Printed by T. and A. CONSTABLE, Printers to His Majesty
                    at the Edinburgh University Press

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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