Nature

Symphony in Yellow

by Oscar Wilde 1854–1900

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.

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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