Quotations and Literature Forum

I read these lines in The Jungle by Uption Sinclair but it did not state who the poet was or what the poem was called.

The vilest deeds, like poison weeds,
Bloom well in prison air;
It is only what is good in Man
That wastes and withers there;
Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate.
And the Warder is Despair

and I am not sure if this is suppose to be part of the same poem or not:

I know not weather Laws be right,
or weather Laws be wrong;

All that we know who lie in goal
Is that the wall is strong.
And they do well to hide thier hell,
For in it things are done
That Son of God nor son of Man
Ever should look upon!

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Every man carries a circle of hell around his head like a halo. Every man, every man has to go through hell to reach his paradise.
Robert De Niro, Cape Fear

Fascinating. If that is all from The Jungle, then Sinclair was quoting from:
The Ballad of Reading Gaol, by Oscar Wilde
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/301/301.txt

Yes that was all quoted in The Jungle and thank you.

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Every man carries a circle of hell around his head like a halo. Every man, every man has to go through hell to reach his paradise.
Robert De Niro, Cape Fear