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b'O Wilde read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\\n\\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n\\n---------------------------------------------\\n\\nHer Voice\\nby Oscar Wilde (1854 \\u2013 1900) \\n\\nThe wild bee reels from bough to bough \\nWith his furry coat and his gauzy wing. \\nNow in a lily-cup, and now \\nSetting a jacinth bell a-swing, \\nIn his wandering; \\nSit closer love: it was here I trow \\nI made that vow, \\n\\nSwore that two lives should be like one \\nAs long as the sea-gull loved the sea, \\nAs long as the sunflower sought the sun, \\u2014 \\nIt shall be, I said, for eternity \\n\\u2019Twixt you and me! \\nDear friend, those times are over and done, \\nLove\\u2019s web is spun. \\n\\nLook upward where the poplar trees \\nSway and sway in the summer air, \\nHere in the valley never a breeze \\nScatters the thistledown, but there \\nGreat winds blow fair \\nFrom the mighty murmuring mystical seas, \\nAnd the wave-lashed leas. \\n\\nLook upward where the white gull screams, \\nWhat does it see that we do not see? \\nIs that a star? or the lamp that gleams \\nOn some outward voyaging argosy, \\u2014 \\nAh! can it be \\nWe have lived our lives in a land of dreams! \\nHow sad it seems. \\n\\nSweet, there is nothing left to say \\nBut this, that love is never lost, \\nKeen winter stabs the breasts of May \\nWhose crimson roses burst his frost, \\nShips tempest-tossed \\nWill find a harbour in some bay, \\nAnd so we may. \\n\\nAnd there is nothing left to do \\nBut to kiss once again, and part, \\nNay, there is nothing we should rue, \\nI have my beauty,\\u2014you your Art, \\nNay, do not start, \\nOne world was not enough for two \\nLike me and you. \\n\\n\\nFirst aired: 14 September 2007\\n\\nFor hundreds more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry Aloud index.\\n\\nReading \\xa9 Classic Poetry Aloud 2008'