SELECTED POEMS OF OSCAR WILDE

Preface	v
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (Complete Version)		1
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (Shorter Version)		61
Ave Imperatrix		89
To My Wife (with a copy of my poems)		100
Magdalen Walks		102
Theocritus—a Villanelle		106
Sonnets—
	Greece	108
	Portia (to Ellen Terry)	110
	Fabien Dei Franchi (to Henry Irving)	112
	Phèdre (to Sarah Bernhardt)	114
	On Hearing The Dies Iræ Sung In The Sistine Chapel	116
	Ave Maria Gratia Plena	118
	Libertatis Sacra Fames	120
	Roses and Rue	122
	From ‘The Garden of Eros’	128
	The Harlot’s House	140
	From ‘The Burden of Itys’	144
	Flower of Love	158

OSCAR WILDE MISCELLANEOUS

Preface	vii
La Sainte Courtisane	111
A Florentine Tragedy	127

THE CANTERVILLE GHOST

BY WILDE

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Miss Virginia E. Otis

"Had once raced old Lord Bilton on her pony"

"Blood has been spilled on that spot"

"I really must insist on your oiling those chains"

"The twins ... at once discharged two pellets on him"

"Its head was bald and burnished"

"He met with a severe fall"

"A heavy jug of water fell right down on him"

"Making satirical remarks on the photographs"

"Suddenly there leaped out two figures"

"'Poor, poor ghost,' she murmured; 'have you no place where you can sleep?'"

"The ghost glided on more swiftly"

"He heard somebody galloping after him"

"Out on the landing stepped Virginia"

"Chained to it was a gaunt skeleton"

"By the side of the hearse and the coaches walked the servants with lighted torches"

"The moon came out from behind a cloud"

VERA; OR, THE NIHILISTS.

A DRAMA IN A PROLOGUE, AND FOUR ACTS

By Oscar Wilde

CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS.

THE HAPPY PRINCE AND OTHER TALES

By Oscar Wilde

	Page
The Happy Prince	15
The Nightingale and the Rose	41
The Selfish Giant	59
The Devoted Friend	73
The Remarkable Rocket	105

A CRITIC IN PALL MALL

BEING EXTRACTS FROM REVIEWS AND MISCELLANIES

By Oscar Wilde

	page
The Tomb of Keats	1
Keats’s Sonnet on Blue	4
Dinners and Dishes	8
Shakespeare on Scenery	10
‘Henry the Fourth’ at Oxford	15
A Handbook to Marriage	18
To Read or Not to Read	21
The Letters of a Great Woman	22
Béranger in England	27
The Poetry of the People	29
‘The Cenci’	32
Balzac in English	34
Ben Jonson	37
Mr. Symonds’ History of the Renaissance	39
Mr. Morris’s ‘Odyssey’	44
Russian Novelists	48
Mr. Pater’s ‘Imaginary Portraits’	51
A German Princess	55
‘A Village Tragedy’	63
Mr. Morris’s Completion of the ‘Odyssey’	65
Mrs. Somerville	70
Aristotle at Afternoon Tea	76
Early Christian Art in Ireland	81
Madame Ristori	85
English Poetesses	91
Venus or Victory	101
M. Caro on George Sand	105
A Fascinating Book	108
Henley’s Poems	123
Some Literary Ladies	129
Poetry and Prison	143
The Gospel According to Walt Whitman	146
Irish Fairy Tales	152
Mr. W. B. Yeats	158
Mr. Yeats’s ‘Wanderings of Oisin’	160
Mr. William Morris’s Last Book	162
Some Literary Notes	167
Mr. Swinburne’s ‘Poems and Ballads’ (Third Series)	173
A Chinese Sage	177
Mr. Pater’s ‘Appreciations’	187
Sententiae	194

SELECTED POEMS OF OSCAR WILDE

CONTENTS

OSCAR WILDE MISCELLANEOUS

CONTENTS

THE CANTERVILLE GHOST

BY WILDE

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

VERA; OR, THE NIHILISTS.

A DRAMA IN A PROLOGUE, AND FOUR ACTS

By Oscar Wilde

THE HAPPY PRINCE AND OTHER TALES

By Oscar Wilde

CONTENTS

A CRITIC IN PALL MALL

BEING EXTRACTS FROM REVIEWS AND MISCELLANIES

By Oscar Wilde

CONTENTS