<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=573468" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Speranza's Son</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">His poems and plays are literary gems his quotes popular today<br>A genius and a great poet with words he had a way<br>Incarcerated in Reading Jail he lived at a time<br>When for a man to love another man was looked on as a crime.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His mother was a great poet Speranza was her name<br>In the Dublin literary circles of her time she was one who knew fame<br>She gave to the World Oscar Wilde the truly enlightened one<br>What woman would not feel proud to give birth to such a son.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His father the antiquarian and gifted writer became famed far and wide<br>And as an expert on human diseases his worth could not be denied<br>But nowadays he is better known as Oscar's father the wit and literary great<br>A legend for the ages and one to celebrate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Importance of Being Earnest, The Ballad of Reading Jail<br>and Lady Windermere's Fan<br>From the pen of Speranza's son the renowned literary man<br>And though he died as a pauper in Paris from Dublin far away<br>Through his humorous quotes and insightful writings his legend lives today.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Duggan">Francis Duggan</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=573468" data-title="Speranza's Son de Francis Duggan" data-description="His poems and plays are literary gems his quotes popular today A genius and a great poet with words he had a way Incarcerated in Reading Jail he lived at a time When for a man to love another man was looked on as a crime. His mother was a great p..."></div> </div> </div>

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