My Voice

Oscar Wilde * Track #58 On Poems

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Oscar Wilde

1881

My Voice by Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde

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My Voice is a three-stanza work that expresses love the same way Wilde’s other works do-with extreme metaphors and emotion.

Written in 1881, this poem followed the poem Her Voice, perhaps to create two different perspectives, or a dialogue between him and his wife (Constance Lloyd), or his former g...

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Within this restless, hurried, modern world
We took our hearts' full pleasure - You and I,
And now the white sails of our ship are furled,
And spent the lading of our argosy.

Wherefore my cheeks before their time are wan,
For very weeping is my gladness fled,
Sorrow has paled my young mouth's vermilion,
And Ruin draws the curtains of my bed.

But all this crowded life has been to thee
No more than lyre, or lute, or subtle spell
Of viols, or the music of the sea
That sleeps, a mimic echo, in the shell.

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