Go, little book, To him who, on a lute with horns of pearl, Sang of the white feet of the Golden Girl: And bid him look Into thy pages: it may hap that he May find that golden maidens dance through thee.
Where this text comes from
First published in Book-Song, ed. Gleeson White (London, Elliot Stock, 1893), p. 157. Mason records that Book-Song misprints the title of the book as “The House of Pomegranates.” Stuart Mason, A Bibliography of the Poems of Oscar Wilde (London, 1907), is the authority for this printing. [1]
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Cite this poem
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900).
“With a Copy of A House of Pomegranates.” First published in Book-Song, ed. Gleeson White (London, Elliot Stock, 1893), p. 157.
Text: Poem Index, https://poemindex.org/oscar-wilde/with-a-copy-of-a-house-of-pomegranates/.
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