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* * * * 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_, _werefirst published in volume form in_ 1881, _and were reprinted four timesbefore the end of_ 1882. _A new Edition with additional poems_,_including Ravenna_, _The Sphinx_, _and The Ballad of Reading Goal_, _wasfirst published_ (_limited issues on hand-made paper and Japanesevellum_) _by Methuen & Co. in March_ 1908. _A further Edition_ (_makingthe seventh_) _with some omissions from the issue of_ 1908, _butincluding two new poems_, _was published in September_, 1909. _EighthEdition_, _November_ 1909. _Ninth Edition_, _December_ 1909. _TenthEdition_, _December_ 1910. _Eleventh Edition_, _December_, 1911._Twelfth Edition_, _May_, 1913. _A further selection of the poems_, _including The Ballad of ReadingGaol_, _is published uniform with this volume_. CONTENTS PAGECHARMIDES 9REQUIESCAT 67SAN MINIATO 69ROME UNVISITED 71HUMANITAD 77LOUIS NAPOLEON 114ENDYMION 116LE JARDIN 119LA MER 120LE PANNEAU 121LES BALLONS 124CANZONET 126LE JARDIN DES TUILERIES 129PAN: DOUBLE VILLANELLE 131IN THE FOREST 135SYMPHONY IN YELLOW 136SONNETSHÉLAS! 139TO MILTON 140ON THE MASSACRE OF THE CHRISTIANS IN BULGARIA 141HOLY WEEK AT GENOA 142URBS SACRA ÆTERNA 143E TENEBRIS 144AT VERONA 145ON THE SALE BY AUCTION OF KEATS’ LOVE LETTERS 146THE NEW REMORSE 147
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