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The first collected edition of the works of Oscar Wilde

Edited by Robert Ross
Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)

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RAVENNA
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POEMS
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UNCOLLECTED POEMS
  
TO L. L.
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TRANSLATIONS
  
THE SPHINX
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THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL

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ΣΤΡΟΦΗ Β

Or it may be my bitter doom
To stand a handmaid at the loom,
In distant Athens of supreme renown;
And weave some wondrous tapestry,
Or work in bright embroidery,
Upon the crocus-flowered robe and saffron- coloured gown,
The flying horses wrought in gold,
The silver chariot onward rolled
That bears Athena through the Town;
Or the warring giants that strove to climb
From earth to heaven to reign as kings,
And Zeus the conquering son of Time
Borne on the hurricane's eagle wings;
And the lightning flame and the bolts that fell
From the risen cloud at the god's behest,
And hurled the rebels to darkness of hell,
To a sleep without slumber or waking or rest.
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