Oscar Wilde Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900
Birthday: October 16
Death: November 30
And her sweet red lips on these lips of mine Burned like the ruby fire set In the swinging lamp of a crimson shrine, Or the bleeding wounds of the pomegranate, Or the heart of the lotus drenched and wet With the spilt-out blood of the rose-red wine.
source: Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose”, p.154, Oxford University Press on Demand
topic: Sweet, Heart, Wine, Wet, Red Wine, Crimson, Pomegranates
