Oscar Wilde 
Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde 

pub One.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. At the end of the complete text will be found a shorter version based on the original draft of the poem. This is included for the benefit of reciters and their audiences who have found the entire poem too long for declamation. I have tried to obviate a difficulty, without officiously exercising the ungrateful prerogatives of a literary executor, by falling back on a text which represents the author’s first scheme for a poem — never intended of course for recitation.