William Ernest Henley (1849-1903)

The Rating of William Ernest Henley's Poems

1. Echoes. 4. Invictus
2. Double Ballade on the Nothingness of Things
3. Ballade of Dead Actors
4. Villon's Straight Tip to All Cross Coves
5. Easy Is the Triolet
6. Echoes. 40. The Spring, My Dear
7. Rhymes and Rhythms. 25. England, My England
8. Rhymes and Rhythms. 24. Not to the Staring Day
9. A Love by the Sea
10. In Hospital. 23. Music
11. Since Those We Love and Those We Hate
12. Rhymes and Rhythms. 4. It Came With the Threat of a Waning Moon
13. In Hospital. 6. After
14. Echoes. 9. Madam Life's a Piece in Bloom
15. Echoes. 47. Crosses and Troubles
16. To F. W.
17. Echoes. 29. A Child
18. Rhymes and Rhythms. 16. Space and Dread and the Dark
19. Rhymes and Rhythms. 15. You Played and Sang a Snatch of Song
20. Rhymes and Rhythms. 3. A Desolate Shore
21. The Rain and the Wind
22. A New Song to an Old Tune
23. In Hospital. 28. Discharged
24. When You Are Old
25. Echoes. 2. Life Is Bitter
26. In Hospital. 17. Interlude
27. In Hospital. 27. Nocturn
28. A Thanksgiving
29. Rhymes and Rhythms. 2. We Are the Choice of the Will
30. Rhymes and Rhythms. 11. Gull in an Aery Morrice
31. Rhymes and Rhythms. 19. O, Time and Change
32. Echoes. 38. On the Way to Kew
33. Rhymes and Rhythms. 22. Trees and the Menace of Night
34. From a Window in Princes Street
35. Croquis
36. Echoes. 16. While the West Is Paling
37. What Is to Come
38. In Hospital. 4. Before
39. In Hospital. 25. Apparition
40. If I Were King
41. London Voluntaries. 1. Grave
42. We Shall Surely Die
43. In Hospital. 1. Enter Patient
44. Rhymes and Rhythms. 7. There's a Regret
45. In Hospital. 20. Visitor
46. In Hospital. 13. Casualty
47. Echoes. 5. I Am the Reaper
48. Echoes. 3. O, Gather Me the Rose
49. Echoes. 25. In the Year That's Come and Gone
50. Echoes. 42. A Wink from Hesper
51. Echoes. 7. Fill a Glass with Golden Wine
52. Echoes. 45. From the Brake the Nightingale
53. With Strawberries We Filled a Tray
54. At Queensferry
55. Back-View
56. Rhymes and Rhythms. 14. Fresh from His Fastnesses
57. In Fisherrow
58. To My Wife
59. O, Have You Blessed, Behind the Stars
60. Echoes. 13. Bring Her Again, O Western Wind
61. In Hospital. 19. Scrubber
62. Ballade of Youth and Age
63. Between the Dusk of a Summer Night
64. Echoes. 41. The Spirit of Wine
65. Echoes. 39. The Past Was Goodly Once
66. Villanelle
67. Echoes. 46. Matri DilectissimÆ
68. Echoes. 19. Your Heart Has Trembled to My Tongue
69. Echoes. 6. Praise the Generous Gods
70. Echoes. 11. Thick Is the Darkness
71. In Hospital. 21. Romance
72. Echoes. 1. To My Mother
73. Echoes. 33. The Ways Are Green
74. Echoes. 36. I Gave My Heart to a Woman
75. Rhymes and Rhythms. 6. One with the Ruined Sunset
76. In Rotten Row
77. The Ways of Death Are Soothing and Serene
78. Ballade of Truisms
79. Rhymes and Rhythms. 9. As Like The Woman As You Can
80. Double Ballade of Life and Death
81. In Hospital. 24. Suicide
82. London Voluntaries. 2. Andante Con Moto
83. In Hospital. 15. ‘The Chief’
84. Rhymes and Rhythms. 1. Where Forlorn Sunsets Flare and Fade
85. Echoes. 10. The Sea Is Full of Wandering Foam
86. Echoes. 35. Margaritae Sorori
87. London Voluntaries. 3. Scherzando
88. In Hospital. 5. Operation
89. In Hospital. 11. Clinical
90. London Types: Bus Driver
91. In Hospital. 9. Lady-Probationer
92. Rhymes and Rhythms. 18. When You Wake in Your Crib
93. Rhymes and Rhythms. 17. Tree, Old Tree of the Triple Crook
94. Echoes. 30. Kate-a-Whimsies, John-a-Dreams
95. Rhymes and Rhythms. 8. Time and the Earth
96. Echoes. 43. Friends . . . Old Friends . . .
97. Rhymes and Rhythms. 21. When the Wind Storms by with a Shout, and the Stern Sea-Caves
98. Echoes. 24. The Full Sea Rolls and Thunders
99. Echoes. 23. The Skies Are Strown with Stars
100. Echoes. 37. Or Ever the Knightly Years Were Gone
101. Echoes. 26. In the Placid Summer Midnight
102. Echoes. 8. We’ll Go No More A-Roving
103. Echoes. 31. O, Have You Blessed, behind the Stars
104. Echoes. 18. The Nightingale Has a Lyre of Gold
105. London Voluntaries. 5. Allegro Maëstoso
106. Rhymes and Rhythms. 23. Here They Trysted, Here They Strayed
107. Echoes. 12. To Me at My Fifth-Floor Window
108. Echoes. 34. Life in Her Creaking Shoes
109. In the Dials
110. Echoes. 21. We Flash across the Level
111. Rhymes and Rhythms. 5. Why, My Heart, Do We Love Her So?
112. Echoes. 17. The Sands Are Alive with Sunshine
113. Envoy
114. Rhymes and Rhythms. Prologue
115. Ballade Made in the Hot Weather
116. London Voluntaries. 4. Largo e Mesto
117. Ballade of Midsummer Days and Nights
118. Echoes. 22. The West a Glimmering Lake of Light
119. In Hospital. 22. Pastoral
120. Echoes. 44. If It Should Come to Be
121. Echoes. 20. The Surges Gushed and Sounded
122. Echoes. 14. The Wan Sun Westers, Faint and Slow
123. In Hospital. 2. Waiting
124. In Hospital. 14. Ave, Caeser!
125. Rhymes and Rhythms. 10. Midsummer Midnight Skies
126. Rhymes and Rhythms. 13. Under a Stagnant Sky
127. Orientale
128. In Hospital. 3. Interior
129. Echoes. 32. O, Falmouth Is a Fine Town
130. Echoes. 28. Blithe Dreams Arise to Greet Us
131. Rhymes and Rhythms. 20. The Shadow of Dawn
132. In Hospital. 7. Vigil
133. In Hospital. 16. House-Surgeon
134. In Hospital. 10. Staff-Nurse: New Style
135. In Hospital. 8. Staff-Nurse: Old Style
136. Echoes. 15. There Is a Wheel Inside My Head
137. Echoes. 27. She Sauntered by the Swinging Seas
138. Rhymes and Rhythms. 12. Some Starlit Garden Grey with Dew
139. In Hospital. 12. Etching
140. Attadale, West Highlands
141. The Gods are Dead
142. Beside the Idle Summer Sea
143. In Hospital. 26. Anterotics
144. Ballade of the Toyokuni Colour-Print
145. Rhymes and Rhythms. Epilogue
146. In Hospital. 18. Children: Private Ward

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