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2 days ago · And all men kill the thing they love, By all let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword! Read Oscar Wilde's poignant The Ballad of Reading Gaol, a powerful reflection on justice, suffering, and human compassion. Download the full poem in PDF format.
2 days ago · Was Oscar Wilde Killed. June 6, 2024 by Ted Hannah. Oscar Wilde, the famous Irish playwright, poet and wit, passed away in 1900 at the age of 46. Despite his fame and notoriety, the cause of Wilde’s death remains a mystery. While some believe he died of natural causes, others believe he was deliberately murdered.
2 days ago · Rudderless, we drift athwart a tempest, and when once the storm of youth is past, Without lyre, without lute or chorus, Death the silent pilot comes at last. And within the grave there is no pleasure, for the blindworm battens on the root, And Desire shudders into ashes, and the tree of Passion bears no fruit.
2 days ago · E Tenebris. Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach Thy hand, For I am drowning in a stormier sea. Than Simon on Thy lake of Galilee: The wine of life is spilt upon the sand, My heart is as some famine-murdered land. Whence all good things have perished utterly,
5 days ago · Oscar Wilde, the well-known Irish-born writer, playwright, poet, and wit, died in November 1900 at the age of 46. He had been diagnosed with meningitis in April that year, likely after being given a surgical procedure to relieve pain from an ear infection.
4 days ago · Oscar Wilde — ‘Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising...
6 hours ago · Frank O’Hara. Frank O’Hara, A writer and MOMA curator whose poems include “A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island”, famously died there at just forty years old. O’Hara was hit by a beach buggy on a dark night in 1966 — a shocking event in the history of a mostly car-free island. 6. Abby Hoffman.
