Charmides and Other Poems
by Oscar Wilde
Contents:
Charmides
Requiescat
San Miniato
Rome Unvisited
Humanitad
Louis Napoleon
Endymion
Le Jardin
La Mer
Le Panneau
Les Ballons
Canzonet
Le Jardin Des Tuileries
Pan: Double Villanelle
In The Forest
Symphony In Yellow
Sonnets:
Helas!
To Milton
On The Massacre Of The Christians In Bulgaria
Holy Week At Genoa
Urbs Sacra Aeterna
E Tenebris
At Verona
On The Sale By Auction Of Keats' Love Letters
The New Remorse
CHARMIDES
I.
He was a Grecian lad, who coming home
With pulpy figs and wine from Sicily
Stood at his galley's prow, and let the foam
Blow through his crisp brown curls unconsciously,
And holding wave and wind in boys despite
Peered from his dripping seat across the wet and stormy night.
Till with the dawn he saw a burnished spear
Like a thin thread of gold against the sky,
And hoisted sail, and strained the creaking gear,
And bade the pilot head her lustily
Against the nor'west gale, and all day long
Held on his way, and marked the rowers' time with measured song.
And when the faint Corinthian hills were red
Dropped anchor in a little sandy bay,
And with fresh boughs of olive crowned his head,
And brushed from cheek and throat the hoary spray,
And washed his limbs with oil, and from the hold
Brought out his linen tunic and his sandals brazen-soled,
And a rich robe stained with the fishers' juice
Which of some swarthy trader he had bought
Upon the sunny quay at Syracuse,
And was with Tyrian broideries inwrought,
And by the questioning merchants made his way
Up through the soft and silver woods, and when the labouring day
Had spun its tangled web of crimson cloud,
Clomb the high hill, and with swift silent feet
Crept ...
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