Just to Entertain you... =)

I want to share with all of you, some poems, from Oscar Wilde, you know, he's amazing! and has a kind of delight on all of his writtings, so, I hope you enjoy these pieces of art =)

By the way... Most of his works on his youth -Or Oxford days- are rather poems :)

HÉLAS!

To drift with every passion till my soul

Is a stringed lute on which all winds can play,

Is it for this that I have given away

Mine ancient wisdom, and austere control?

Methinks my life is a twice-written scroll

Scrawled over on some boyish holiday

With idle songs for pipe and virelay,

Which do but mar the secret of the whole.

Surely there was a time I might have trod

The sunlit heights, and from life's dissonance

Struck one clear chord to reach the ears of God:

Is that time dead? lo ! with little rod

I did but touch the honey of romance-

and must I lose a soul's inheritance?

SONNET TO LIBERTY

No that I love thy children, whose dull eyes

See nothing save their own unlovely woe,

Whose minds know nothing, nothing care to know,

But that roar of thy Democracies,

Thy reigns of Terrir, thy great Anarchies

Mirror my wildest passions like the sea

And give my rage a brother--! Liberty!

For this sake only do thy dissonant cries

Delight my discreet soul, else might all kings

By bloody knout or treacherous cannonades

Rob nations of their rights inviolatae

And I remain unmoved-and yet, and yet,

These Christs that die upon the barricades,

God knows it I am with them, in some things