Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a lyrical text by Oscar Wilde. Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. Excerpt: «He did not wear his scarlet coat, For blood and wine are red, And blood and wine were on his hands When they found him with the dead, The poor dead woman whom he loved, And murdered in her bed. He walked amongst the Trial Men In a suit of shabby grey; A cricket cap was on his head, And his step seemed light and gay; But I never saw a man who looked So wistfully at the day.»