Go, little book,
To him who, on a lute with horns of pearl,
Sang of the white feet of the Golden Girl:
And bid him look
Such a simple yet famous line in poetry that could be  found in Byron’s  Don Juan  and famously in Southey’s  “L'Envoy” , it actually traces back to Chaucer in  Book V of his  Troilus and Criseyde : 
 Go, litel book,  go litel myn tregedie, Ther god thy maker yet, er that he dye, So sende might to make in som comedie! 
 Overland  details the significance of this simple three-word line: 
 Since Chaucer wrote [that line], authors have imagined their published work as offspring being sent into the world, a vulnerable representative of its parent. 
 At the time this poem was scrawled, Wilde’s fairytales were merely just  little -known books that aspired to reach far—as were those of McCarthy, whom he wrote this stanza for.
With a Copy of A House of Pomegranates An Inscription