Originally published anonymously under the pseudonym C33
The only break in this poem's stanza pattern comes in its third section, where "evil sprite[s]" dancing a saraband cause the speaker to exclaim "Ah! wounds of Christ!" Its fourth section imagines a red rose and a white rose growing out of a dead man's mouth and heart after describing a naked man "wrapt in a sheet of flame!" This poem's speaker pities a man who does not feel "upon his shuddering cheek / The kiss of Caiaphas," and imagines that man's room thronged with "dread figures" like a Governor "with the yellow face of Doom." Originally published anonymously under the pseudonym C33 [See three three], it begins "He did not wear his scarlet coat / For blood and wine are red," and describes the death of a figure who "walked amongst the Trial Men / In a suit of shabby grey." It also asserts that "each man kills the thing he loves"; "the coward does it with a kiss / the brave man with a sword!" FTP, name this poem about a hanging in the title prison, written by Oscar Wilde.
The only break in this poem's stanza pattern comes in its third section, where "evil sprite[s]" dancing a saraband cause the speaker to exclaim "Ah! wounds of Christ!"
“The {Ballad} of {Reading Gaol}”