Transcribed from 1913 Methuen and Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
CHARMIDES AND OTHER POEMS
BY OSCAR WILDE
METHUEN & CO. LTD. 36 ESSEX STREET W.C. LONDON
This volume was first published in 1913
Wilde’s Poems, a selection of which is given in this volume, were first published in volume form in 1881, and were reprinted four times before the end of 1882. A new Edition with additional poems, including Ravenna, The Sphinx, and The Ballad of Reading Goal, was first published (limited issues on hand-made paper and Japanese vellum) by Methuen & Co. in March 1908. A further Edition (making the seventh) with some omissions from the issue of 1908, but including two new poems, was published in September, 1909. Eighth Edition, November 1909. Ninth Edition, December 1909. Tenth Edition, December 1910. Eleventh Edition, December, 1911. Twelfth Edition, May, 1913.
A further selection of the poems, including The Ballad of Reading Gaol, is published uniform with this volume.
CONTENTS
PAGE
Charmides
Requiescat
67
San Miniato
69
Rome Unvisited
71
Humanitad
77
Louis Napoleon
114
Endymion
116
Le Jardin
119
La Mer
120
Le Panneau
121
Les Ballons
124
