To shield him from the sun, his wind-tossed hair The garden came a youth one hand he raised To see a place so strange, so sweet, so fair. Uprose and gazing I stood long, all mazed Only God's glory, for never a sunrise mars Slowly but exquisitely nurtured by the stars,Īnd watered with the scented dew long cupped Of grass that in an hundred springs had been Scarce seen for the rank grass, and through green netsīlue eyes of shy peryenche winked in the sun.Īnd there were curious flowers, before unknown,įlowers that were stained with moonlight, or with shades There were pools that dreamedīlack and unruffled there were white lilies Like a waste garden, flowering at its will
#Oscar wilde gay chambermaids trial#
When Wilde was put on trial for his homosexuality, Edward Carson questioned Wilde about two poems written by Lord Douglas that appeared in the issue of The Chameleon that contained Wilde's "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young." The two poems were "Two Loves" and "In Praise of Shame."Īnd at my feet there lay a ground, that seemed "Wilde wanted a consuming passion," Ellman wrote. His head told him the cost of Bosie's love was too expensive, his heart considered it a bargain. He lusted for Lord Alfred, but knew that Bosie would only hurt him. In the end, Wilde sacrificed himself to protect Lord Alfred, who remained a loyal, yet manipulative, friend.įor Wilde, who was much more low-key about his sexuality, it was a love-hate relationship, almost akin to the moth and flame. For the length of their relationship, Lord Alfred used Oscar's love for him as a means to get what he wanted. He relied on Wilde's money when his own ran out and would pout and threaten self-injury when Wilde complained of his behavior or criticized his literary skills. "Your slim gilt soul walks between passion and poetry."īosie knew of Wilde's affection for him early on and succeeded in using it to his advantage. "It is a marvel that those red-roseleaf lips of yours should be made no less for the madness of music and song than for the madness of kissing," Wilde wrote to Lord Alfred in 1893. They exchanged letters, with some of Wilde's containing what could be interpreted as expressions of passionate love. Bosie referred to Wilde as "the most chivalrous friend in the world" and was willing to forsake his birthright for the friendship. Oscar immediately became enamored with Bosie who was thrilled that such a literary genius was interested in him. Oscar and Bosie, as his friends called Lord Alfred Douglas, met in Chelsea when Bosie was 22 and Wilde 15 years his elder.
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