Oscar Wilde Greece Poems

  • 1.
    THE sea was sapphire coloured, and the sky
    Burned like a heated opal through the air,
    We hoisted sail; the wind was blowing fair
    For the blue lands that to the eastward lie.
    ...
  • 2.
    The sea was sapphire coloured, and the sky
    Burned like a heated opal through the air;
    We hoisted sail; the wind was blowing fair
    For the blue lands that to the eastward lie.
    ...
  • 3.
    Newdigate prize poem recited in the Sheldonian Theatre
    Oxford June 26th, 1878.

    To my friend George Fleming author of ‘The Nile Novel'
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  • 4.
    The sea was sapphire coloured, and the sky
    Burned like a heated opal through the air;
    We hoisted sail; the wind was blowing fair
    For the blue lands that to the eastward lie.
    ...
Total 4 Greece Poems by Oscar Wilde

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Love 60 I Love You 60 Gold 57 White 57 Sea 55 God 48 Red 45 Hair 40 Life 39 Heart 38

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