 Your sonnet is quite lovely, and it is a marvel that those red rose-leaf lips of yours should have been made no less for the music of song than for the madness of kisses. Your slim gilt soul walks between passion and poetry.  Displacing Homophobia - Sivu 207muokkaaja - 1989 - 313 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | James Thomas Harris - 1916 - 350 sivua
...letter is nothing," Oscar replied; "a prose poem. I will give you a copy of it." Here is the letter: "My OWN BOY, — Your sonnet is quite lovely, and...marvel that those red rose-leaf lips of yours should be made no less for the madness of music and song than for the madness of kissing. Your slim-gilt soul... | |
 | Michael Bronski - 1984 - 260 sivua
...letter to his lover Alfred Douglas, almost to the verge of parody while never losing his hold upon it. Your sonnet is quite lovely, and it is a marvel that those red rose-leaf lips of yours should be made no less for the madness of music and song than for the madness of kissing. Your slim-gilt soul... | |
 | Michael S. Foldy - 1997 - 236 sivua
...to introduce one of the letters first. The letter, described as a "prose sonnet," read as follows: My own boy, Your sonnet is quite lovely, and it is...made no less for music of song than for madness of kissing. Your slim gilt soul walks between passion and poetry. I think Hyacinthus, whom Apollo loved... | |
 | Byrne Fone - 1998 - 880 sivua
...forgot my tortured past. LETTERS FROM OSCAR WILDE TO LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS (1893-1895) [January 1893] My Own Boy, Your sonnet is quite lovely, and it is...kisses. Your slim gilt soul walks between passion and poetr). I know Hyacinthus, whom Apollo loved so madly, was you in Greek days. Why are you alone in... | |
 | Philip Hoare - 1998 - 298 sivua
...Hume-Williams continued to read from Wilde's letter to Douglas. 'It begins, "My own Boy". Then it says, "Your sonnet is quite lovely, and it is a marvel that...Your slim gilt soul walks between passion and poetry ... Always, with undying love, yours, Oscar." Is that a sample?' 'Yes, it is,' said its recipient.... | |
 | Philip Hoare - 1998 - 298 sivua
...Hume-Williams continued to read from Wilde's letter to Douglas. 'It begins, "My own Boy". Then it says, "Your sonnet is quite lovely, and it is a marvel that...Your slim gilt soul walks between passion and poetry ... Always, with undying love, yours, Oscar." Is that a sample?' 'Yes, it is,' said its recipient.... | |
 | Jonathan Fryer - 1998 - 276 sivua
...Bosie, who was in his last year at university. Oscar acknowledged it ecstatically: [? January 1893] My Own Boy, Your sonnet is quite lovely, and it is a marvel that those rose-leaf lips of yours should have been made no less for music of song than for madness of kisses.... | |
 | James Schiffer - 2000 - 500 sivua
...the workings of literary history. The letter reads your sonnet is quite lovely, and it is marvelous that those red roseleaf lips of yours should have...Your slim gilt soul walks between passion and poetry. (Hyde 112)" Wilde defuses this bit of "evidence," however, by citing its genre, calling the poem a... | |
 | Chris White - 1999 - 396 sivua
...Your sonnet is quite lovely, and it is a marvel that those rose-leaf lips of yours should have heen made no less for music of song than for madness of kisses. Your slim gilt soul walks hetween passion and poetry. I know Hyacinthus, whom Apollo loved so madly, was you in Greek Days. Why... | |
 | Moisés Kaufman - 1999 - 92 sivua
...a letter written by Mr. Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas; I will now read it for the court. My own dear Boy, Your sonnet is quite lovely, and it is a marvel that those red rose lips of yours should have been made no less for music of song than for madness of kisses. Your... | |
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