Nature

With a Copy of My Poems

by Oscar Wilde 1854–1900

From Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Nature

I CAN write no stately proem
As a prelude to my lay;
From a poet to a poem
I would dare to say.

For if of these fallen petals
One to you seem fair,
Love will waft it till it settles
On your hair.

And when wind and winter harden
All the loveless land,
It will whisper of the garden,
You will understand.

MLA

Wilde, Oscar. “With a Copy of My Poems.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wilde/58/.

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Wilde, Oscar. “With a Copy of My Poems.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wilde/58/.

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