Oscar Wilde

A House of Pomegranates Oscar Wilde

The Young King, The Birthday of the Infanta, The Fisherman and his Soul, The Star-Child. The lad-for he was only a lad, being but sixteen years of age-was not sorry at their departure, and had flung himself back with a deep sigh of relief on the soft cushions of his embroidered couch, lying there, wild-eyed and open-mouthed, like a brown woodland Faun, or some young animal of the forest newly snared by the hunters.