CELT document E850003-065

The Dole of the King's Daughter

Oscar Wilde

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    THE DOLE OF THE KING'S DAUGHTER

    (Breton)

  1. Seven stars in the still water,
    And seven in the sky;
    Seven sins on the King's daughter,
    Deep in her soul to lie.
  2. Red roses are at her feet,
    (Roses are red in her red-gold hair)
    And O where her bosom and girdle meet
    Red roses are hidden there.
  3. Fair is the knight who lieth slain
    Amid the rush and reed,
    See the lean fishes that are fain
    Upon dead men to feed.
  4. Sweet is the page that lieth there,
    (Cloth of gold is goodly prey,)
    See the black ravens in the air,
    Black, O black as the night are they.
  5. What do they there so stark and dead?
    (There is blood upon her hand)
    Why are the lilies flecked with red?
    (There is blood on the river sand.)
  6. There are two that ride from the south and east,
    And two from the north and west,
    For the black raven a goodly feast,
    For the King's daughter rest.
  7. There is one man who loves her true,
    (Red, O red, is the stain of gore!)
    He hath duggen a grave by the darksome yew,
    (One grave will do for four.)
  8. No moon in the still heaven,
    In the black water none,
    The sins on her soul are seven,
    The sin upon his is one.

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Title (uniform): The Dole of the King's Daughter

Title (extended): (Breton)

Author: Oscar Wilde

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compiled and proof-read by: Margaret Lantry

Funded by: University College, Cork

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Extent: 1130 words

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Date: 1997

Date: 2011

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CELT document ID: E850003-065

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There is not as yet an authoritative edition of Wilde's works.

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Select editions

  1. The writings of Oscar Wilde (London; New York: A. R. Keller & Co. 1907) 15 vols.
  2. Robert Ross (ed), The First Collected Edition of the Works of Oscar Wilde (London: Methuen & Co. 1908). 15 vols. Reprinted Dawsons: Pall Mall 1969.
  3. Complete works of Oscar Wilde (Glasgow: HarperCollins, 1994).

Select bibliography

  1. 'Notes for a bibliography of Oscar Wilde', Books and book-plates (A quarterly for collectors) 5, no. 3 (April 1905), 170-183.
  2. Karl E. Beckson, The Oscar Wilde encyclopedia (New York: AMS Press 1998). AMS Studies in the nineteenth century 18.
  3. Richard Ellmann (ed), The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde (Chicago 1982).
  4. 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).
  5. Richard Ellmann, Oscar Wilde at Oxford: a lecture delivered at the Library of Congress on March 1, 1983 (Washington, DC: Library of Congress 1984).
  6. Richard Ellmann, Oscar Wilde: a biography (London: Hamilton 1987).
  7. Juliet Gardiner, Oscar Wilde: a life in letters, writings and wit (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1995).
  8. Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde, including My memories of Oscar Wilde, by George Bernard Shaw and an introductory note by Lyle Blair (London: Robinson, 1992).
  9. Rupert Hart-Davis (ed), Selected letters of Oscar Wilde (Oxford: Oxford University Press 1979).
  10. Rupert Hart-Davis (ed), More letters of Oscar Wilde (London: Murray 1985).
  11. Vyvyan Beresford Holland, Oscar Wilde: a pictorial biography (London: Thames & Hudson 1960).
  12. H. Montgomery Hyde, Oscar Wilde: a biography (London: Methuen 1977).
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. E. H. Mikhail, Oscar Wilde: an annotated bibliography of criticism (London: Macmillan 1978). Also pubd. Totowa NJ: Rowman & Littlefield 1978.
  16. Thomas A. Mikolyzk, Oscar Wilde: an annotated bibliography (Westport CT: Greenwood Press 1993). Bibliographies and indexes in world literature, 38.
  17. Norman Page, An Oscar Wilde chronology (London: Macmillan 1991).
  18. Hesketh Pearson, A Life of Oscar Wilde (London 1946).
  19. Richard Pine, The thief of reason: Oscar Wilde and modern Ireland (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1996).
  20. Horst Schroeder, Additions and corrections to Richard Ellmann's Oscar Wilde (Braunschweig: H. Schroeder 1989).

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Wilde, Oscar (1987). ‘The Dole of the King’s Daughter’. In: The Works of Oscar Wilde‍. London: Galley Press, p. 760.

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Creation: By Oscar Wilde (1854-1900).

Date: 1881

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Keywords: literary; poetry; 19c

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  1. 2011-01-31: Conversion script run; header updated; new wordcount made. (ed. Beatrix Färber)
  2. 2008-09-30: Keywords added. (ed. Ruth Murphy)
  3. 2005-08-25: Normalised language codes and edited langUsage for XML conversion (ed. Julianne Nyhan)
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  5. 1997-10-23: Text parsed using SGMLS. (ed. Margaret Lantry)
  6. 1997-10-22: Text proofed; structural mark-up inserted. (ed. Margaret Lantry)
  7. 1997-10-15: Header created. (ed. Margaret Lantry)
  8. 1997: Text captured. (ed. Donnchadh Ó Corráin)

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