English Poetry. Oscar Wilde. Impression Du Matin. Оскар Уайльд.

Oscar Wilde (Оскар Уайльд)

Impression Du Matin

THE Thames nocturne of blue and gold
  Changed to a Harmony in grey:
  A barge with ochre-coloured hay
Dropt from the wharf: and chill and cold

The yellow fog came creeping down
  The bridges, till the houses' walls
  Seemed changed to shadows, and St. Paul's
Loomed like a bubble o'er the town.

Then suddenly arose the clang
  Of waking life; the streets were stirred        
  With country waggons: and a bird
Flew to the glistening roofs and sang.

But one pale woman all alone,
  The daylight kissing her wan hair,
  Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare,
With lips of flame and heart of stone.

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

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