Note

This collection of Wilde’s Poems contains the volume of 1881 in its entirety, ‘The Sphinx’, ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol,’ and ‘Ravenna.’ Of the Uncollected Poems published in the Uniform Edition of 1908, a few, including the Translations from the Greek and the Polish, are omitted. Two new poems, ‘Désespoir’ and ‘Pan,’ which I have recently discovered in manuscript, are now printed for the first time. Particulars as to the original publication of each poem will be found in ‘A Bibliography of the Poems of Oscar Wilde,’ by Stuart Mason, London 1907.

Robert Ross.


### Poems (1881)			### Page
		Hélas!	3
	Eleutheria:
		Sonnet To Liberty	7
		Ave Imperatrix	8
		To Milton	14
		Louis Napoleon	15
		Sonnet on the Massacre of the Christians in Bulgaria	16
		Quantum Mutata	17
		Libertatis Sacra Fames	18
		Theoretikos	19
	The Garden of Eros		21
	Rosa Mystica:
		Requiescat	39
		Sonnet on approaching Italy	40
		San Miniato	41
		Ave Maria Gratia Plena	42
		Italia	43
		Sonnet written in Holy Week at Genoa	44
		Rome Unvisited	45
		Urbs Sacra Æterna	49
		Sonnet on hearing the Dies Iræ sung in the Sistine Chapel	50
		Easter Day	51
		E Tenebris	52
		Vita Nuova	53
		Madonna Mia	54
		The New Helen	55
	The Burden Of Itys		61
	Wind Flowers:
		Impression du Matin	83
		Magdalen Walks	84
		Athanasia	86
		Serenade	89
		Endymion	91
		La Bella Donna della mia Mente	93
		Chanson	95
	Charmides		97
	Flowers of Gold:
		Impressions: I. Les Silhouettes	135
		II. La Fuite de la Lune	136
		The Grave of Keats	137
		Theocritus: A Villanelle	138
		In the Gold Room: A Harmony	139
		Ballade de Marguerite	140
		The Dole of the King’s Daughter	143
		Amor Intellectualis	145
		Santa Decca	146
		A Vision	147
		Impression de Voyage	148
		The Grave of Shelley	149
		By the Arno	150
	Impressions de Théàtre:
		Fabien dei Franchi	155
		Phèdre	156
		Sonnets written at the Lyceum Theatre
		I. Portia	157
		II. Queen Henrietta Maria	158
		III. Camma	159
	Panthea		161
	The Fourth Movement:
		Impression: Le Réveillon	175
		At Verona	176
		Apologia	177
		Quia Multum Amavi	179
		Silentium Amoris	180
		Her Voice	181
		My Voice	183
		Tædium Vitæ	184
	Humanitad		185
	Flower of Love:
		### Γλυκυπικρος Ερως	211
### Uncollected Poems (1876–1893)
		From Spring Days to Winter	217
		Tristitiæ	219
		The True Knowledge	220
		Impressions: I. Le Jardin	221
		II. La Mer	222
		Under the Balcony	223
		The Harlot’s House	225
		Le Jardin des Tuileries	227
		On the Sale by Auction of Keats’ Love Letters	228
		The New Remorse	229
		Fantasisies Décoratives: I. Le Panneau	230
		II. Les Ballons	232
		Canzonet	233
		Symphony in Yellow	235
		In the Forest	236
		To my Wife: With a Copy of my Poems	237
		With a Copy of ‘A House of Pomegranates’	238
		Roses and Rue	239
		Désespoir	242
		Pan: Double Villanelle	243
### The Sphinx (1894)			245
### The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)			269
### Ravenna (1878)			305

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