Better Gutenberg
Free, beautifully formatted public-domain ebooks

Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol

by Oscar Wilde

27 of 35 · Contents · Download EPUB

In the Forest

Out of the mid-wood’s twilight
   Into the meadow’s dawn,
Ivory limbed and brown-eyed,
   Flashes my Faun!

He skips through the copses singing,
   And his shadow dances along,
And I know not which I should follow,
   Shadow or song!

O Hunter, snare me his shadow!
   O Nightingale, catch me his strain!
Else moonstruck with music and madness
   I track him in vain!

← Back to Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Scroll to Top