Negative Space: prison
- The Ballad of Reading Gaol
- Written during Wilde’s time in prison. “He did not wear his scarlet coat, for blood and wine are red…”
- I
- “He did not wear his scarlet coat, for blood and wine are red…”
- II
- “Six weeks the guardsman walked the yard, in the suit of shabby gray…”
- III
- “In Debtors’ Yard the stones are hard, and the dripping wall is high…”
- IV
- “There is no chapel on the day on which they hang a man…”
- V
- “I know not whether Laws be right, or whether Laws be wrong…”
- VI
- “In Reading gaol by Reading town there is a pit of shame…”
