LA DAME JAUNE She took the curious amber charms >From off her neck, and laid them down, She loosed her jonquil-coloured gown, And shook the bracelets from her arms. She loosed her lemon-satin stays, She took a carven ivory comb, Her hair crawled down like yellow foam, And flickered in the candle's rays. I watched her thick locks, like a mass Of honey, dripping from the pin; Each separate hair was as the thin Gold thread within a Venice glass. -- Dublin born to unconventional parents - Oscar Wilde's father, William Robert Wilde, was an eminent eye doctor appointed Surgeon Occulist to the Queen and was knighted. His mother, Jane Speranza Francesca Wilde, wrote patriotic Irish verse under the pseudonym Speranza.