Oscar Wilde
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- p.758
- I am weary of lying within the chase
When the knights are meeting in market-place. - Nay, go not thou to the red-roofed town
Lest the hooves of the war-horse tread thee down. - But I would not go where the Squires ride,
I would only walk by my Lady's side. - Alack! and alack! thou art overbold,
A Forester's son may not eat off gold. - Will she love me the less that my Father is seen,
Each Martinmas day in a doublet green? - Perchance she is sewing at tapestrie,
Spindle and loom are not meet for thee. - Ah, if she is working the arras bright
I might ravel the threads by the fire-light. - Perchance she is hunting of the deer,
How could you follow o'er hill and mere? - Ah, if she is riding with the court,
I might run beside her and wind the morte. - Perchance she is kneeling in St. Denys,
(On her soul may our Lady have gramercy!) - Ah, if she is praying in lone chapelle,
I might swing the censer and ring the bell. - Come in my son, for you look sae pale,
The father shall fill thee a stoup of ale. - But who are these knights in bright array?
Is it a pageant the rich folks play? - 'Tis the King of England from over sea,
Who has come unto visit our fair countrie. p.759 - But why does the curfew toll sae low
And why do the mourners walk a-row? - O 'tis Hugh of Amiens my sister's son
Who is lying stark, for his day is done. - Nay, nay, for I see white lilies clear,
It is no strong man who lies on the bier. - O 't is old Dame Jeannette that kept the hall,
I knew she would die at the autumn fall. - Dame Jeannette had not that gold-brown hair,
Old Jeannette was not a maiden fair. - O 't is none of our kith and none of our kin,
(Her soul may our Lady assoil from sin!) - But I hear the boy's voice chaunting sweet,
“Elle est morte, la Marguerite.” - Come in my son and lie on the bed,
And let the dead folk bury their dead. - O mother, you know I loved her true:
O mother, hath one grave room for two?
BALLADE DE MARGUERITE
(Normande)
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Title (uniform): Ballade de Marguerite
Title (extended): (Normande)
Author: Oscar Wilde
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compiled and proof-read by: Margaret Lantry
Funded by: University College, Cork
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2. Second draft.
Extent: 1130 words
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Date: 1997
Date: 2011
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There is not as yet an authoritative edition of Wilde's works.
Source description
Select editions
- The writings of Oscar Wilde (London; New York: A. R. Keller & Co. 1907) 15 vols.
- Robert Ross (ed), The First Collected Edition of the Works of Oscar Wilde (London: Methuen & Co. 1908). 15 vols. Reprinted Dawsons: Pall Mall 1969.
- Complete works of Oscar Wilde (Glasgow: HarperCollins, 1994).
Select bibliography
- 'Notes for a bibliography of Oscar Wilde', Books and book-plates (A quarterly for collectors) 5, no. 3 (April 1905), 170-183.
- Karl E. Beckson, The Oscar Wilde encyclopedia (New York: AMS Press 1998). AMS Studies in the nineteenth century 18.
- Richard Ellmann (ed), The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde (Chicago 1982).
- Richard Ellmann; John Espey, Oscar Wilde: two approaches: papers read at a Clark Library seminar, April 17, 1976 (Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California 1977).
- Richard Ellmann, Oscar Wilde at Oxford: a lecture delivered at the Library of Congress on March 1, 1983 (Washington, DC: Library of Congress 1984).
- Richard Ellmann, Oscar Wilde: a biography (London: Hamilton 1987).
- Juliet Gardiner, Oscar Wilde: a life in letters, writings and wit (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1995).
- Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde, including My memories of Oscar Wilde, by George Bernard Shaw and an introductory note by Lyle Blair (London: Robinson, 1992).
- Rupert Hart-Davis (ed), Selected letters of Oscar Wilde (Oxford: Oxford University Press 1979).
- Rupert Hart-Davis (ed), More letters of Oscar Wilde (London: Murray 1985).
- Vyvyan Beresford Holland, Oscar Wilde: a pictorial biography (London: Thames & Hudson 1960).
- H. Montgomery Hyde, Oscar Wilde: a biography (London: Methuen 1977).
- Andrew McDonnell, Oscar Wilde at Oxford: an annotated catalogue of Wilde manuscripts and related items at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, including many hitherto unpublished letters, photographs and illustrations (A. McDonnell 1996). Limited edition of 170 copies.
- Stuart Mason, Bibliography of Oscar Wilde (London: E. G. Richards 1907). Also pubd. New York 1908, London 1914 in 2 vols. Repr. of 1914 edition: New York: Haskell House 1972.
- E. H. Mikhail, Oscar Wilde: an annotated bibliography of criticism (London: Macmillan 1978). Also pubd. Totowa NJ: Rowman & Littlefield 1978.
- Thomas A. Mikolyzk, Oscar Wilde: an annotated bibliography (Westport CT: Greenwood Press 1993). Bibliographies and indexes in world literature, 38.
- Norman Page, An Oscar Wilde chronology (London: Macmillan 1991).
- Hesketh Pearson, A Life of Oscar Wilde (London 1946).
- Richard Pine, The thief of reason: Oscar Wilde and modern Ireland (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1996).
- Horst Schroeder, Additions and corrections to Richard Ellmann's Oscar Wilde (Braunschweig: H. Schroeder 1989).
The edition used in the digital edition.
Wilde, Oscar (1987). ‘Ballade de Marguerite’. In: The Works of Oscar Wilde. London: Galley Press, pp. 758–759.
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Creation: By Oscar Wilde (1854-1900).
Date: 1881
Language usage
- The text is in English. (en)
- Title of poem and a line in French. (fr)
Keywords: literary; poetry; 19c
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- 2011-01-31: Conversion script run; header updated; new wordcount made. (ed. Beatrix Färber)
- 2008-09-30: Keywords added. (ed. Ruth Murphy)
- 2005-08-25: Normalised language codes and edited langUsage for XML conversion (ed. Julianne Nyhan)
- 2005-08-04T14:27:57+0100: Converted to XML (conversion Peter Flynn)
- 1997-10-23: Text parsed using SGMLS. (ed. Margaret Lantry)
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- 1997: Text captured. (ed. Donnchadh Ó Corráin)