I remember reading Oscar Wilde’s short stories The Happy Prince,The Nightingale and the Rose and The Selfish Giant in my High school. Actually the first two of them were a part of the syllabus and the last one I found in another anthology. Those stories were the most beautiful pieces of Literature I have read. Only a person touched by the spirit of divine love can be so lyrical and moving.
The sadness and pain of the Happy Prince and the pure sacrifice of the sparrow who are blessed by the Lord Divine bring tears to the reader.
Wordsworth was another poet who could write beautifully about small and simple things. His small lyrical piece Daffodils which reads “And then my heart with pleasure fills and dances with the Daffodils” summons all the beauty of this small flower to eternally captivate the reader.