Nature
Symphony in Yellow
From Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Nature
AN omnibus across the bridge
Crawls like a yellow butterfly,
And, here and there, a passer-by
Shows like a little restless midge.
Big barges full of yellow hay
Are moored against the shadowy wharf,
And, like a yellow silken scarf,
The thick fog hangs along the quay.
The yellow leaves begin to fade
And flutter from the Temple elms,
And at my feet the pale green Thames
Lies like a rod of rippled jade.
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MLA
Wilde, Oscar. “Symphony in Yellow.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wilde/56/.
Chicago
Wilde, Oscar. “Symphony in Yellow.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wilde/56/.
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