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The Poetry of Oscar Wilde QUOTES

The Poetry of Oscar Wilde QUOTES

1 " Her ivory hands on the ivory keys
Strayed in a fitful fantasy,
Like the silver gleam when the poplar trees
Rustle their pale leaves listlessly,
Or the drifting foam of a restless sea
When the waves show their teeth in the flying breeze. "

― Oscar Wilde , The Poetry of Oscar Wilde

2 " Sweet, there is nothing left to say
But this, that love is never lost "

― Oscar Wilde , The Poetry of Oscar Wilde

3 " O wandering graves! O restless sleep!
O silence of the sunless day!
O still ravine! O stormy deep!
Give up your prey! Give up your prey! "

― Oscar Wilde , The Poetry of Oscar Wilde

4 " I think thy spirit hath passed away
From these white cliffs and high-embattled towers;
This gorgeous fiery-coloured world of ours
Seems fallen into ashes dull and grey "

― Oscar Wilde , The Poetry of Oscar Wilde

5 " Like silver moons the pale narcissi lay "

― Oscar Wilde , The Poetry of Oscar Wilde

6 " But surely it is something to have been
The best beloved for a little while,
To have walked hand in hand with Love, and seen
His purple wings flit once across thy smile. "

― Oscar Wilde , The Poetry of Oscar Wilde

7 " Against these turbid turquoise skies
The light and luminous blloons
Dip and drift like satin moons,
Drift like silken butterflies "

― Oscar Wilde , The Poetry of Oscar Wilde

8 " And at my feet the pale green Thames
Lies like a rod of rippled jade. "

― Oscar Wilde , The Poetry of Oscar Wilde

9 " For not in quiet English fields
Are these, our brothers, lain to rest,
Where we might deck their broken shields
With all the flowers the dead love best. "

― Oscar Wilde , The Poetry of Oscar Wilde

10 " she was a poem <3 but he couldn't read 3... a powerful message about our society "

― Oscar Wilde , The Poetry of Oscar Wilde