Althea Gyles’s illustration for Oscar Wilde’s "Harlot’s House"

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Althea Gyles

1904

Illustration for the one-volume publication of Oscar Wilde’s poem, “The Harlot’s House”

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Text of “The Harlot’s House”

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This image illustrates these lines:

Then, turning to my love, I said,
'The dead are dancing with the dead,
The dust is whirling with the dust.'

But she--she heard the violin,
And left my side, and entered in:
Love passed into the house of lust.

Bibliography

Wilde, Oscar. The Harlot's house: a poem by Oscar Wilde with five illustrations by Althea Gyles. London: Imprinted for subscribers at the Mathurin Press, 1904. Online version from Explore the British Library. Web. 3 November 2019.

Last modified 4 November 2019