Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) is remembered for his comedies and epigrams, but he began and ended as a poet. This collection gathers his published verse in the public domain: the lush, Pre-Raphaelite Poems of 1881, the Impressionist city pieces like “Symphony in Yellow” and “Impression du Matin,” the decadent incantation of The Sphinx, the Newdigate Prize poem Ravenna, and his last and greatest work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, written after two years’ hard labour.
Read a fuller life sketch on our About Oscar Wilde page. This Poetry Catalog archive gathers 85 poems by Wilde now live on the site—listed alphabetically below, with links to each full text. The texts follow the 1913 Methuen edition edited by Robert Ross, and new poems are added to this list as they are published.
Start here: The Ballad of Reading Gaol · Requiescat · The Harlot’s House · Symphony in Yellow · Hélas! · Impression du Matin · E Tenebris · The Sphinx · Magdalen Walks
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Oscar Wilde Poems
- Amor Intellectualis
- Apologia
- At Verona
- Athanasia
- Ave Imperatrix
- Ave Maria Gratia Plena
- The Ballad of Reading Gaol
- Ballade de Marguerite
- The Burden of Itys
- By the Arno
- Camma
- Canzonet
- Chanson
- Charmides
- The Dole of the King’s Daughter
- Désespoir
- E Tenebris
- Easter Day
- Endymion
- Fabien dei Franchi
- From Spring Days to Winter
- The Garden of Eros
- The Grave of Keats
- The Grave of Shelley
- The Harlot’s House
- Her Voice
- Humanitad
- Hélas!
- Impression de Voyage
- Impression du Matin
- Impression: Le Réveillon
- In the Forest
- In the Gold Room: A Harmony
- Italia
- La Bella Donna della mia Mente
- La Fuite de la Lune
- La Mer
- Le Jardin
- Le Jardin des Tuileries
- Le Panneau
- Les Ballons
- Les Silhouettes
- Libertatis Sacra Fames
- Louis Napoleon
- Madonna Mia
- Magdalen Walks
- My Voice
- The New Helen
- The New Remorse
- On the Sale by Auction of Keats’ Love Letters
- Pan: Double Villanelle
- Panthea
- Phèdre
- Portia
- Quantum Mutata
- Queen Henrietta Maria
- Quia Multum Amavi
- Ravenna
- Requiescat
- Rome Unvisited
- Roses and Rue
- San Miniato
- Santa Decca
- Serenade
- Silentium Amoris
- Sonnet on Approaching Italy
- Sonnet on Hearing the Dies Iræ Sung in the Sistine Chapel
- Sonnet on the Massacre of the Christians in Bulgaria
- Sonnet to Liberty
- Sonnet Written in Holy Week at Genoa
- The Sphinx
- Symphony in Yellow
- Theocritus: A Villanelle
- Theoretikos
- To Milton
- To My Wife: With a Copy of My Poems
- Tristitiæ
- The True Knowledge
- Tædium Vitæ
- Under the Balcony
- Urbs Sacra Æterna
- A Vision
- Vita Nuova
- With a Copy of ‘A House of Pomegranates’
- Γλυκύπικρος Ἔρως (Glukupikros Eros)