With an Introduction, Notes and Bibliography by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London.
Wilde, …
Content warning Stanza on Tyranny
And yet perchance it may be better so, For Tyranny is an incestuous Queen, Murder her brother is her bedfellow, And the Plague chambers with her: in obscene And bloody paths her treacherous feet are set; Better the empty desert and a soul inviolate!
— Collected poems of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde (Page 106)