Read full poem →Accused was in a stinking tale
Conceived in terror of the gaol,
When to the whole court’s surprise
Dictionary Entry
A place or institution for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody or detention, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.
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Poetry examples for “gaol”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →CHAPTER 26 -- A reformation in the gaol. To make laws complete, they
should reward as well as punish
Read full poem →His pen he
prostitutes t’ avoid a gaol.
Read full poem →***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK The Ballad of Reading Gaol***
Read full poem →_A further selection of the poems_, _including The Ballad of Reading
Gaol_, _is published uniform with this volume_.
Read full poem →_This collection of Wilde’s Poems contains the volume of_ 1881 _in its
entirety_, ‘_The Sphinx_’, ‘_The Ballad of Reading Gaol_,’ _and_
‘_Ravenna_.’ _Of the Uncollected Poems published in the Uniform Edition
Read full poem →PREFACE v
THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL (_Complete Version_) 1
THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL (_Shorter Version_) 61
Read full poem →additional poems_, _including Ravenna_, _The Sphinx_, _and The Ballad of
Reading Gaol_, _was first published_ (_limited issues on hand-made paper
and Japanese vellum_) _by Methuen & Co. in March 1908_. _A further
Read full poem →Smote on the shivering air,
And from all the gaol rose up a wail
Of impotent despair,
Read full poem →Or whether Laws be wrong;
All that we know who lie in gaol
Is that the wall is strong;