Transcribed from the 1913 Methuen & Co. edition by DavidPrice,

POEMS
BY
OSCAR WILDE

WITH THE BALLAD OF
READING GAOL

 

METHUEN & CO. LTD.
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Twelfth Edition

p.ivFirst Published

 

   Ravenna

1878

   Poems

1881

   ,, Fifth Edition

1882

   The Sphinx

1894

   The Ballad of Reading Gaol

1898

First Issued by Methuen and Co. (LimitedEditions on Handmade Paper and Japanese Vellum)

March 1908

Seventh Edition (F’cap. 8vo).

September 1909

Eighth Edition ( ,, ,, )

November 1909

Ninth Edition ( ,, ,, )

December 1909

Tenth Edition ( ,, ,, )

November 1910

Eleventh Edition ( ,, ,, )

December 1911

Twelfth Edition ( ,, ,, )

April 1913

NOTE

This collection of Wilde’s Poems contains the volumeof 1881 in its entirety, ‘TheSphinx’, ‘The Ballad of ReadingGaol,’ andRavenna.’ Of the Uncollected Poems published in the Uniform Editionof 1908, a few, including the Translations from theGreek and the Polish, are omittedTwo newpoems, ‘DésespoirandPan,’ which I have recently discovered inmanuscript, are now printed for the first timeParticulars as to the original publication of each poem willbe found inA Bibliography of the Poems of OscarWilde,’ by Stuart Mason, London 1907.

RobertRoss.

p.vCONTENTS

POEMS (1881):

PAGE

 

 

Hélas!

3

 

Eleutheria:

 

 

Sonnet To Liberty

7

 

 

Ave Imperatrix

8

 

 

To Milton

...

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