Oscar Wilde
1854–1900
"La dame jaune." Autograph manuscript, ca. 1889? 1 p.
MA 7258.12
Gift of Lucia Moreira Salles, 2008
Transcription
and all I saw her thick locks, in like a mass
of honey drip ripple dripping from the pin,
Each separate hair is was like the thin
Gold thread within a Venice glass.
She loosed her pale blue/rose-pink/lemon satin stays
She took her a carven amber/ boxwood/ivory comb,
Her hair fell down like yellow foam.
or like a sunbeam tangled rays
comb
beads.
reeds.
seeds.
feeds.
meads.
home
foam x came crawling/tumbling down like yellow foam
roam
dome.