Potential Titles: Oscar Wilde

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For blood and wine are red - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"

A casque of scorching steel - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"

Rob the prison of its prey - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"

Through a little roof of glass - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"

Set a lock upon his lips - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"

The troubled plumes of midnight - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"

Through a fen of filthy darkness grope - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"

And Horror stalked before each man - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"

The shard, the pebble, and the flint - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"

Nor does Terror walk at noon - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"

Pity's long-broken urn - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"

And outcasts always mourn - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"

Built with bricks of shame - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"

Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"

And the Warder is Despair - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"

Walks wild-eyed and cries to Time - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"

Like asp with adder fight - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"

Eaten by teeth of flame - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"

Linnet in the wild-rose brake - Oscar Wilde "La Bella Donna della Mia Mente"

The tired daffodil has closed its gilded doors - Oscar Wilde "Endymion"

Gentle violets weeping with the dew - Oscar Wilde "The Grave of Keats"

The little night-owl make her throne - Oscar Wilde "The Grave of Shelley"

Great mother of eternal sleep - Oscar Wilde "The Grave of Shelley"

Never a breeze scatters the thistledown - Oscar Wilde "Her Voice"

Some outward voyaging argosy - Oscar Wilde "Her Voice"

Whose crimson roses burst his frost - Oscar Wilde "Her Voice"

Lips of flame and heart of stone - Oscar Wilde "Impression du Matin"

Burned like a heated opal through air - Oscar Wilde "Impression du Voyage"

Overheard the curlews cry - Oscar Wilde "Impressions"

Deep silence where the shadows cease - Oscar Wilde "Impressions"

Moonstruck with music and madness - Oscar Wilde "In the Forest"

When the waves show their teeth - Oscar Wilde "In the Gold Room"

On the burnished disk of the marigold - Oscar Wilde "In the Gold Room"

The gloom of the jealous night - Oscar Wilde "In the Gold Room"

The bleeding wounds of the pomegranate - Oscar Wilde "In the Gold Room"

With the gold of the flower of March - Oscar Wilde "Magdalen Walks"

And Ruin draws the curtains - Oscar Wilde "My Voice"

Lyre, or lute, or subtle spell - Oscar Wilde "My Voice"

Music prisoned in her cave - Oscar Wilde "The New Remorse"

In the withered hollow of this land - Oscar Wilde "The New Remorse"

Break the crystal of a poet's heart - Oscar Wilde "On the Sale By Auction of Keats' Love Letters"

The letters which Endymion wrote - Oscar Wilde "On the Sale by Auction of Keats' Love Letters"

And give my rage a brother - Oscar Wilde "Sonnet to Liberty"

Mirror my wildest passions - Oscar Wilde "Sonnet to Liberty"

Hears the wild dogs at the gate - Oscar Wilde "Theocritus"

Where Amaryllis lies in state - Oscar Wilde "Theocritus"


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