greykit.poetry — Oscar Wilde

• 1898 [oscar-wilde] The Ballad of Reading Gaol
  Poems

  Wilde's long narrative poem in six cantos about the hanging of a soldier at Reading Gaol — anchored in the refrain that each man kills the thing he loves, by each let this be heard.

  #ballad#prison#justice#death#narrative#1890s
• 1881 [oscar-wilde] Requiescat
  Poems

  Wilde's elegy for his sister Isola, who died aged nine — tread lightly, speak gently; all her bright golden hair tarnished with rust, all his life's buried here.

  #elegy#grief#death#lyric#1880s