By an affair of the heart his character was soiled <br />And he spent some time in Reading Jail the amazing Oscar Wilde <br />And in his wit and writings his legacy lives today <br />The memory of true genius takes centuries to decay. <br /> <br />A son of William Wilde and Speranza a fine poet in her own right <br />It would seem that the young Oscar was born and bred to write <br />Long after the works of many of his contemporaries to the ways of time have gone <br />His wit and works of genius still fresh and living on. <br /> <br />The author of The Ballad of Reading Jail and The Importance of Being Earnest and Lady Windemere's Fan <br />He died almost in penury though not a forgotten man <br />For he was unforgettable with words he had a way <br />And his literary works will still be living many centuries from today. <br /> <br />A genius of the Literary World his life full of romance <br />He died in nineteen hundred at forty six years of age in Paris in France <br />His health was poor he did not live on for to grow old and gray <br />Some of the good have a short span you hear some people say. <br /> <br />A man who in his lifetime knew of literary renown <br />He scaled the heady heights of fame and then came crashing down <br />He blossomed into a literary giant he was a gifted child <br />Speranza's son the writer and wit the amazing Oscar Wilde.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-amazing-oscar-wilde/
