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Most beautiful poem, but with great melancholy and very touching. Having read his two last lines, this is a very thought-provoking poem, but with great beauty created.5 Stars Full

Amazing outstanding poem

Incredible..! ! This is such a powerful peace to read.. :)

'I have my beauty, - you your Art, Nay, do not start, One world was not enough for two Like me and you.' - These last four lines are everything. I also loved a poem which delivers its very best at the end. Great write from an extraordinary writer. Xx NDS

How musically the bee flows and the time follows it

Beautiful and insightfully brought forth.

This is beautiful poetry. Loved it.

well written. Ienjoy it most

Thank God some souls are able to express their pain in terms of sheer beauty, since I more often see, all around, our inner pain being outpoured as ugliness.

Nice imagery and great poem, I enjoyed it.

.......beautiful poem...love this ★

What else one can aspire in life than in reading like a poem of this and I here enjoyed in mind and every poetic lines have real poetry and love and philosophical context. Great poet and poem.

I found this a very romantic, but rather sad too. Wilde certainly has a style so different to poets such as Keats, Byron, even Wordsworth. The length of this poem is just right, and the first verse takes you right to the heart of his thoughts and feelings of a love that cannot be, but remembers so well their time together in the second verse, climaxing with such clarity their parting, and insignificance in the world around them. I felt very much the emotional need, and separation between two lovers. Pat Northall

Gosh, haven't read this in a long time. It still and will forever be an amazing piece. How can anyone not appreciate the beauty?

I wonder which poem is Straw's favourite? Perhaps some verse so deeply founded in factual accuracy that it fails to move the soul?

Even after all these years, it still works.

I don't know for you but I have to admit that it is the greatest poem that history has met It's actually my fav...And just to answer to mr.Straw, a poet can make to his poem whatever he wants...You can't tell the artist not to paint the sea pink or tell the musician to stop writing his own music or tell the poet not to write something out of the world...And for Oscar Wilde's defence I may be a 14-year-old girl and maybe I know nothing of poetry, but I know that everubody knows Wilde so you can comment on his work but not the way you did... PS I'm so sorry for any grammtical or vocabulary mistakes but I'm Greek....

utter genius. always loved Wilde. i think the job of the poet is to carry the feelings of all human beings within their hearts. emotions in their most naked form have no words to properly describe them, and yet, the world is occasionally blessed with men and women who feel the weight and love and sadnesses of the world so strongly that it haunts them day and night. their only option, not to get rid of it, but to understand it and thus be able to deal with it, is to write it in the form of poetry. They write not in ink. they write in tears and in the blood drawn from their very hearts.

Wilde's sexual orientation may bias the judgement of his critics. This poem is sex-neutral, however, and as a love poem-it speaks to all lovers.

This is a very British poem. If Mr Straw would like to know May's breast can be stabbed by winter, we have such weird weather we can have sun, rain, snow, and hail all in the same afternoon in spring! ! Also has he never heard of poetic licence. It not meant to be literal. e.g. The sun flower seeks the sun etc. Plus Gulls are found all over the place on land as well as sea. I have some flying out back at this moment and they live here all year. I live 70 miles from the sea.