ALFRED DOUGLAS FULL

When you met mercy's voice with frowns or jeers.Īnd did you ask who signed the plea with you?įools! It was signed already with the sign That you yourselves, not he, were pitiable

ALFRED DOUGLAS FULL

You that were full of fears,Īnd mean self-love, shall live to know full well Of song and art is powerless as the tears

Opened for Tracian Orpheus, now the spell Zola, Copee, Sardou and others) who refused to compromise their spotless reputations or imperil their literary exclusiveness by signing a merciful petition in favour of Oscar Wilde.Ĭan open English prisons. 'Not all the singers of a thousand years' Sonnet, dedicated to those French men of letters (Messrs. (Compare Keats's sonnet When I Have Fears.) Till mean things put on beauty like a dressĪnd all the world was an enchanted place.Īnd then methought outside a fast locked gateĪnd voiceless thoughts like murdered singing birds. I heard his golden voice and marked him trace I dreamed of him last night, I saw his face 'Not all the singers of a thousand years'.(From Modern British Poetry by Louis Untermeyer.) The City of the Soul (1899) and Sonnets (1900) contain his most graceful writing. One of the minor poets of 'the eighteen-nineties,' several of his poems rise above his own affectations and the end-of-the-century decadence.

He was the editor of The Academy from 1907 to 1910 and was at one time the intimate friend of Oscar Wilde. Lord Alfred Douglas was born in 1870 and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford. Lord Alfred Douglas Lord Alfred Douglas (1870-1945)

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