 | Public welfare - 1895 - 510 pages
...certain classes of offenders out of prison; they realized that "The vilest deeds, like posion weeds, bloom well in prison air; "It is only what is good in man that wastes and withers there." To preserve the good in man, defendants were permitted to go at large on their own recognizance, cases... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - Civilization - 1898 - 454 pages
...Spring from their fountains radiant in the light. —TL Harrii. The vilest deeds, like poison weeds, Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good...withers there; Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate, And the Warder is Despair. — T/ie Ballad of Beading Jail. THE first half of the century produced... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - Civilization - 1898 - 486 pages
...Spring from their fountains radiant in the light. —TL Uarrii. The vilest deeds, like poison weeds. Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good...withers there; Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate. And the Warder is Despair. —JK» Ballad of Reading Jail. THE first half of the century produced much... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - Law - 1898 - 84 pages
...nor son of Man Ever should look upon ! The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison-air: It is only what is good in Man That wastes and withers there: Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate, And the Warder is Despair. For they starve the little frightened child Till it weeps both night and... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - History - 1898 - 80 pages
...nor son of Man Ever should look upon ! The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison-air : It is only what is good in Man That wastes and withers there : Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate, And the Warder is Despair. For they starve the little frightened child Till it weeps both night and... | |
 | Fay Lewis - Jails - 1903 - 106 pages
...things are done That Son of God nor son of Han Ever should look upon! The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air: It is only what is good...withers there: Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate, And the Warder is Despair. Each narrow cell in which we dwell Is a foul and dark latrine, And the fetid... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1909 - 364 pages
...nor son of Man Ever should look upon! The vilest deeds like poison weeds, Bloom well in prison-air; It is only what is good in Man That wastes and withers there: Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate, And the Warder is Despair. For they starve the little frightened child Till it weeps both night and... | |
 | 1906 - 406 pages
...Truly, as Oscar Wilde said in his "Ballard of Heading Gaol'': "The vilest deeds, like poison weeds, Bloom well in prison air: It is only what is good...withers there. Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate, And the warder is Despair." All who are interested in humanizing and Christianizing our penal methods... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - Authors, Irish - 1906 - 176 pages
...nor son of Man Ever should look upon ! The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison-air : It is only what is good in Man That wastes and withers there : Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate, And the Warder is Despair. For they starve the little frightened child Till it weeps both night and... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - Prisons - 1908 - 212 pages
...nor son of Man Ever should look upon! The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison-air: It is only what is good in Man That wastes and withers there: Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate, And the Warder is Despair. For they starve the little frightened child Till it weeps both night and... | |
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The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison-air: It is only what is good in Man That wastes and withers there: Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate, And the Warder is Despair. 
