Charmides, and Other Poems

by Oscar Wilde

Transcribed from 1913 Methuen and Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

CHARMIDES
AND OTHER POEMS

BY
OSCAR WILDE

METHUEN & CO. LTD.
36 ESSEX STREET W.C.
LONDON

This volume was first published in 1913

Wilde’s Poems, a selection of which is given in this volume, were first published in volume form in 1881, and were reprinted four times before the end of 1882. A new Edition with additional poems, including Ravenna, The Sphinx, and The Ballad of Reading Goal, was first published (limited issues on hand-made paper and Japanese vellum) by Methuen & Co. in March 1908. A further Edition (making the seventh) with some omissions from the issue of 1908, but including two new poems, was published in September, 1909. Eighth Edition, November 1909. Ninth Edition, December 1909. Tenth Edition, December 1910. Eleventh Edition, December, 1911. Twelfth Edition, May, 1913.

A further selection of the poems, including The Ballad of Reading Gaol, is published uniform with this volume.

CONTENTS

	PAGE
Charmides	[9]
Requiescat	[67]
San Miniato	[69]
Rome Unvisited	[71]
Humanitad	[77]
Louis Napoleon	[114]
Endymion	[116]
Le Jardin	[119]
La Mer	[120]
Le Panneau	[121]
Les Ballons	[124]
Canzonet	[126]
Le Jardin Des Tuileries	[129]
Pan: Double Villanelle	[131]
In the Forest	[135]
Symphony in Yellow	[136]
Sonnets
Hélas!	[139]
To Milton	[140]
On the Massacre of the Christians inBulgaria	[141]
Holy Week at Genoa	[142]
Urbs Sacra Æterna	[143]
E Tenebris	[144]
At Verona	[145]
On the Sale by Auction of Keats’Love Letters	[146]
The New Remorse	[147]

CHARMIDES