English Poetry. Oscar Wilde. A Fragment. Оскар Уайльд.

Oscar Wilde (Оскар Уайльд)

A Fragment

Beautiful star with the crimson lips
And flagrant daffodil hair,
Come back, come back, in the shaking ships
O'er the much-overrated sea,
To the hearts that are sick for thee
With a woe worse than mal de mer-
O beautiful stars with the crimson lips
And the flagrant daffodil hair. -
O ship that shakes on the desolate sea,
Neath the flag of the wan White Star,
Thou bringest a brighter star with thee
From the land of the Philistine,
Where Niagara's reckoned fine
And Tupper is popular-
O ship that shakes on the desolate sea,
Neath the flag of the wan White Star. 

Oscar Wilde’s other poems:

1. Queen Henrietta Maria
2. Sonnet Written in Holy Week at Genoa
3. On the Massacre of the Christians in Bulgaria
4. Sonnet on Hearing the Dies Irae Sung in the Sistine Chapel
5. Le Jardin Des Tuileries

Poems of other poets with the same name (Стихотворения других поэтов с таким же названием):

Anne Brontë (Энн Бронте) A Fragment (“Maiden, thou wert thoughtless once”)

Thomas Peacock (Томас Пикок) A Fragment (“Nay, deem me not insensible, Cesario”)

Adam Gordon (Адам Гордон) A Fragment (“They say that poison-sprinkled flowers”)

1941

To the dedicated English version of this website

---