The Ballad of Reading Gaol - Bok av Oscar Wilde - Häftad
\Like two doomed ships that pass in stormWe had crossed each other's way:But we made no sign, we said no word,We had no word to say\-Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898) The poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898) by Oscar Wilde, was inspired by the two years he spent in the jail of Reading Gaol, England. There he experienced the hanging of Royal Horse Guards trooper Charles Thomas Wooldridge, convicted for the murder of his wife. This poem, dedicated to Wooldridge, describes not only..