[Poems by Wilde in] Richard Henry Wilde His Life and Selected Poems |
[Here all is heartless, hollow, loud] |
[Poems by Wilde in] Richard Henry Wilde | ||
[Here all is heartless, hollow, loud]
Here all is heartless, hollow, loud
Vain glittering shew and empty sound:
Society's a lonesome crowd,
Pleasure, the same dull tedious round.
Vain glittering shew and empty sound:
Society's a lonesome crowd,
Pleasure, the same dull tedious round.
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One heart to love—one life to press—
One friend to trust—in some wild glen
Were less a waste, O! ten times less,
Than this vast solitude of men.
One friend to trust—in some wild glen
Were less a waste, O! ten times less,
Than this vast solitude of men.
[Poems by Wilde in] Richard Henry Wilde | ||