Charmides and Other Poems is a collection of poems and sonnets by Oscar Wilde.
Charmides and Other Poems - Stolen from Artemis that jealous maid,To please Athena,and the dappled hide,Of a tall stag who in some mountain glade, Had met the shaft; and then the herald cried, And from the pillared precinct one by one Went the glad Greeks well pleased that they their simple vows had done.
Charmides and Other Poems - Long time he lay and hardly dared to breathe, And heard the cadenced drip of spilt-out wine, And the rose-petals falling from the wreath, As the night breezes wandered through the shrine, And seemed to be in some entranced swoon, Till through the open roof above the full and brimming moon