Poetry Codex

Victorian

Oscar Wilde

1854–1900

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) was an Irish poet, playwright, and wit, one of the most celebrated figures of Victorian literary London before his 1895 trial and imprisonment.

His early verse is lush and Romantic in the Keatsian mode, while The Ballad of Reading Gaol, written after his release from prison, is a stark, plainspoken account of suffering and remorse.

Poems (73)

  1. Written in Holy Week at Genoa
  2. Urbs Sacra Æterna
  3. On Hearing the Dies Iræ Sung in the Sistine Chapel
  4. Easter Day
  5. E Tenebris
  6. Vita Nuova
  7. Madonna Mia
  8. The New Helen
  9. The Burden of Itys
  10. Impression Du Matin
  11. Magdalen Walks
  12. Athanasia
  13. (for Music)
  14. La Bella Donna Della Mia Mente
  15. Chanson
  16. I.
  17. II
  18. Les Silhouettes
  19. La Fuite De La Lune
  20. The Grave of Keats
  21. A Villanelle
  22. A Harmony
  23. (normande)
  24. (breton)
  25. Amor Intellectualis
  26. Santa Decca
  27. A Vision
  28. Impression De Voyage
  29. The Grave of Shelley
  30. By the Arno
  31. To My Friend Henry Irving
  32. To Sarah Bernhardt
  33. To Ellen Terry
  34. Panthea
  35. Le Réveillon
  36. At Verona
  37. Apologia
  38. Quia Multum Amavi
  39. Silentium Amoris
  40. Her Voice
  41. My Voice
  42. Tædium Vitæ
  43. Humanitad
  44. Flower of Love
  45. Tristitæ
  46. The True Knowledge
  47. Le Jardin
  48. La Mer
  49. Under the Balcony
  50. The Harlot’s House
  51. Le Jardin Des Tuileries
  52. On the Sale by Auction of Keats’ Love Letters
  53. The New Remorse
  54. Le Panneau
  55. Les Ballons
  56. Canzonet
  57. Symphony in Yellow
  58. In the Forest
  59. With a Copy of My Poems
  60. With a Copy of ‘a House of Pomegranates’
  61. Roses and Rue
  62. Désespoir
  63. The Sphinx
  64. The Ballad of Reading Gaol
  65. V.
  66. VI
  67. VII
  68. Requiescat
  69. Albeit nurtured in democracy
  70. To Milton
  71. Helas!
  72. Ave Imperatrix
  73. Serenade

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