English Poetry. Oscar Wilde. Symphony in Yellow. Оскар Уайльд.

Oscar Wilde (Оскар Уайльд)

Symphony in Yellow

An omnibus across the bridge
Crawls like a yellow butterfly,
And, here and therem a passer-by
Shows like a little restless midge.

Big barges full of yellow hay
Are moored against the shadowy wharf,
And, like a yellow silken scarf,
The thick fog hangs along the quay.

The yellow leaves begin to fade
And flutter from the temple elms,
And at my feet the pale green Thames
Lies like a rod of rippled jade. 

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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