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b'O Wilde read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\n http://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\\n \\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n \\n---------------------------------------------------\\n \\nHer Voice\\nby Oscar Wilde (1854 \\u2013 1900) \\n \\n The wild bee reels from bough to bough \\n With his furry coat and his gauzy wing. \\n Now in a lily-cup, and now \\n Setting a jacinth bell a-swing, \\n In his wandering; \\n Sit closer love: it was here I trow \\n I made that vow, \\n \\n Swore that two lives should be like one \\n As long as the sea-gull loved the sea, \\n As long as the sunflower sought the sun, \\u2014 \\n It shall be, I said, for eternity \\n \\u2019Twixt you and me! \\n Dear friend, those times are over and done, \\n Love\\u2019s web is spun. \\n \\n Look upward where the poplar trees \\n Sway and sway in the summer air, \\n Here in the valley never a breeze \\n Scatters the thistledown, but there \\n Great winds blow fair \\n From the mighty murmuring mystical seas, \\n And the wave-lashed leas. \\n \\n Look upward where the white gull screams, \\n What does it see that we do not see? \\n Is that a star? or the lamp that gleams \\n On some outward voyaging argosy, \\u2014 \\n Ah! can it be \\n We have lived our lives in a land of dreams! \\n How sad it seems. \\n \\n Sweet, there is nothing left to say \\n But this, that love is never lost, \\n Keen winter stabs the breasts of May \\n Whose crimson roses burst his frost, \\n Ships tempest-tossed \\n Will find a harbour in some bay, \\n And so we may. \\n \\n And there is nothing left to do \\n But to kiss once again, and part, \\n Nay, there is nothing we should rue, \\n I have my beauty,\\u2014you your Art, \\n Nay, do not start, \\n One world was not enough for two \\n Like me and you. \\n \\n \\n \\n First aired: 14 September 2007\\n \\n For hundreds more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry Aloud index.\\n \\n Reading \\xa9 Classic Poetry Aloud 2008'