 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1898 - 454 pages
...deeds, like poison weeds, Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in Man That wastes and withers there; Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate, And the Warder is Despair. — T/ie Ballad of Beading Jail. THE first half of the century produced much good work that has not... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1898 - 448 pages
...deeds, like poison weeds, Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in Man That wastes and withers there; Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate, And the Warder is Despair. —The Ballad of Beading Jail. THE first half of the century produced much good work that has not been... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1898 - 84 pages
...vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison-air: It is only what is good in Man That wastes and withers there: Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate, And the Warder is Despair. For they starve the little frightened child Till it weeps both night and day: And they scourge the... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1898 - 80 pages
...vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison-air : It is only what is good in Man That wastes and withers there : Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate, And the Warder is Despair. For they starve the little frightened child Till it weeps both night and day : And they scourge the... | |
 | Fay Lewis - 1903 - 120 pages
...vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air: It is only what is good in Man That wastes and withers there: Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate, And the Warder is Despair. Each narrow cell in which we dwell Is a fool and dark latrine, And the fetid breath of living Death... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1909 - 364 pages
...vilest deeds like poison weeds, Bloom well in prison-air; It is only what is good in Man That wastes and withers there: Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate, And the Warder is Despair. For they starve the little frightened child Till it weeps both night and day. And they scourge the... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1906 - 176 pages
...vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison-air : It is only what is good in Man That wastes and withers there : Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate, And the Warder is Despair. For they starve the little frightened child Till it weeps both night and day : And they scourge the... | |
 | 1906 - 406 pages
...deeds, like poison weeds, Bloom well in prison air: It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there. Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate, And the warder is Despair." All who are interested in humanizing and Christianizing our penal methods ought to especially rejoice... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1908 - 212 pages
...vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison-air: It is only what is good in Man That wastes and withers there: Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate, And the Warder is Despair. For they starve the little frightened child Till it weeps both night and day: And they scourge the... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1909 - 366 pages
...deeds like poison weeds, Bloom well in prison-air ; It is only what is good in Man That wastes and withers there : Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate, And the Warder is Despair. For they starve the little frightened child Till it weeps both night and day : And they scourge the... | |
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The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison-air: It is only what is good in Man That wastes and withers there: Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate, And the Warder is Despair. 
