Lord Alfred Douglas "The Dead Poet" Poem animation

Heres a virtual movie of Lord Alfred Douglas "Bosie" the onetime lover of Oscar Wilde reading his poem/Lament to his tragic genius friend "The Dead Poet" .

Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (22 October 1870 -- 20 March 1945), nicknamed "Bosie", was a British author, poet and translator, better known as the intimate friend and lover of the writer Oscar Wilde.

Lord Alfred Douglas was born in 1870 and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford. He was the editor of The Academy from 1907 to 1910 and was at one time the intimate friend of Oscar Wilde. One of the minor poets of "the eighteen-nineties," several of his poems rise above his own affectations and the end-of-the-century decadence. The City of the Soul (1899) and Sonnets (1900) contain his most graceful writing.

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Jim Clark
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(7 votes) - vote - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Print friendly version E-mail this poem to e friend Send this poem as eCard Add this poem to MyPoemList I dreamed of him last night, I saw his face
All radiant and unshadowed of distress,
And as of old, in music measureless,
I heard his golden voice and marked him trace
Under the common thing the hidden grace,
And conjure wonder out of emptiness,
Till mean things put on beauty like a dress
And all the world was an enchanted place.

And then methought outside a fast locked gate
I mourned the loss of unrecorded words,
Forgotten tales and mysteries half said,
Wonders that might have been articulate,
And voiceless thoughts like murdered singing birds.
And so I woke and knew that he was dead.

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[swimrdie]

If this is Lord Alfred Douglas' actual voice, it is as enthralling as his written sentiments. What a series of existences he led: abused child, an openly gay male, branded (wrongly)  as the cause of Oscar Wilde's downfall, defender of homosexuality in a time when it was utterly taboo, a writer of sonnets to rival Shakespeare, married to Olive, dad to a son committed to an asylum, devout Roman Catholic. If I could meet one person from history, it would be Lord Alfred Douglas.

[poetryreincarnations]

@swimrdie Tis me Dear Friend reciting Bosies beautiful passionate elegant poem. Yes the poor chap has been rather vilified,for supposedly feeding Oscar Wilde to the Wolves,but as you say he was just as much a victim to institutionalised Homophobia as poor old Oscar,and Bosie wrote such lovely poetry I must do some more of his poems when time permits.

Kind Regards

Jim Clark

[EdNortonisMineLol]

Beautiful

[WPCwashclean]

wow.