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. Echoes. 40. The Spring, My Dear
6. Easy Is the Triolet
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. Since Those We Love and Those We Hate
11. Rhymes and Rhythms. 4. It Came With the Threat of a Waning Moon
12. In Hospital. 23. Music
13. In Hospital. 6. After
14. Echoes. 9. Madam Life's a Piece in Bloom
15. Echoes. 47. Crosses and Troubles
16. Echoes. 29. A Child
17. Rhymes and Rhythms. 16. Space and Dread and the Dark
18. Rhymes and Rhythms. 3. A Desolate Shore
19. In Hospital. 28. Discharged
20. In Hospital. 17. Interlude
21. In Hospital. 27. Nocturn
22. Rhymes and Rhythms. 11. Gull in an Aery Morrice
23. A New Song to an Old Tune
24. Rhymes and Rhythms. 2. We Are the Choice of the Will
25. Echoes. 2. Life Is Bitter
26. The Rain and the Wind
27. Rhymes and Rhythms. 15. You Played and Sang a Snatch of Song
28. When You Are Old
29. Rhymes and Rhythms. 22. Trees and the Menace of Night
30. Echoes. 16. While the West Is Paling
31. From a Window in Princes Street
32. Echoes. 38. On the Way to Kew
33. What Is to Come
34. In Hospital. 4. Before
35. Croquis
36. A Thanksgiving
37. In Hospital. 25. Apparition
38. London Voluntaries. 1. Grave
39. In Hospital. 20. Visitor
40. If I Were King
41. In Hospital. 13. Casualty
42. With Strawberries We Filled a Tray
43. Echoes. 42. A Wink from Hesper
44. We Shall Surely Die
45. Echoes. 7. Fill a Glass with Golden Wine
46. In Fisherrow
47. Echoes. 5. I Am the Reaper
48. Back-View
49. In Hospital. 1. Enter Patient
50. Echoes. 25. In the Year That's Come and Gone
51. Rhymes and Rhythms. 7. There's a Regret
52. Echoes. 45. From the Brake the Nightingale
53. At Queensferry
54. Echoes. 3. O, Gather Me the Rose
55. Echoes. 19. Your Heart Has Trembled to My Tongue
56. To F. W.
57. Rhymes and Rhythms. 14. Fresh from His Fastnesses
58. Echoes. 11. Thick Is the Darkness
59. To My Wife
60. In Hospital. 19. Scrubber
61. The Ways of Death Are Soothing and Serene
62. Echoes. 13. Bring Her Again, O Western Wind
63. O, Have You Blessed, Behind the Stars
64. Between the Dusk of a Summer Night
65. Rhymes and Rhythms. 9. As Like The Woman As You Can
66. Echoes. 33. The Ways Are Green
67. Echoes. 6. Praise the Generous Gods
68. Villanelle
69. In Hospital. 21. Romance
70. Echoes. 39. The Past Was Goodly Once
71. London Voluntaries. 2. Andante Con Moto
72. Ballade of Youth and Age
73. Rhymes and Rhythms. 6. One with the Ruined Sunset
74. Ballade of Truisms
75. Echoes. 46. Matri DilectissimÆ
76. Echoes. 1. To My Mother
77. Echoes. 41. The Spirit of Wine
78. In Rotten Row
79. Echoes. 35. Margaritae Sorori
80. In Hospital. 24. Suicide
81. Rhymes and Rhythms. 1. Where Forlorn Sunsets Flare and Fade
82. Rhymes and Rhythms. 8. Time and the Earth
83. Echoes. 30. Kate-a-Whimsies, John-a-Dreams
84. Echoes. 36. I Gave My Heart to a Woman
85. In Hospital. 11. Clinical
86. In Hospital. 5. Operation
87. London Types: Bus Driver
88. In Hospital. 15. ‘The Chief’
89. Echoes. 24. The Full Sea Rolls and Thunders
90. Echoes. 43. Friends . . . Old Friends . . .
91. Echoes. 10. The Sea Is Full of Wandering Foam
92. Double Ballade of Life and Death
93. Rhymes and Rhythms. 13. Under a Stagnant Sky
94. Rhymes and Rhythms. 17. Tree, Old Tree of the Triple Crook
95. Echoes. 23. The Skies Are Strown with Stars
96. Echoes. 8. We’ll Go No More A-Roving
97. Rhymes and Rhythms. 5. Why, My Heart, Do We Love Her So?
98. Echoes. 12. To Me at My Fifth-Floor Window
99. Rhymes and Rhythms. 18. When You Wake in Your Crib
100. Echoes. 34. Life in Her Creaking Shoes
101. Echoes. 31. O, Have You Blessed, behind the Stars
102. Ballade of Midsummer Days and Nights
103. The Gods are Dead
104. London Voluntaries. 3. Scherzando
105. In the Dials
106. Echoes. 26. In the Placid Summer Midnight
107. Rhymes and Rhythms. Epilogue
108. In Hospital. 16. House-Surgeon
109. Rhymes and Rhythms. 19. O, Time and Change
110. Rhymes and Rhythms. 12. Some Starlit Garden Grey with Dew
111. Rhymes and Rhythms. Prologue
112. Echoes. 20. The Surges Gushed and Sounded
113. In Hospital. 8. Staff-Nurse: Old Style
114. Rhymes and Rhythms. 10. Midsummer Midnight Skies
115. In Hospital. 2. Waiting
116. Ballade Made in the Hot Weather
117. Echoes. 18. The Nightingale Has a Lyre of Gold
118. Echoes. 27. She Sauntered by the Swinging Seas
119. London Voluntaries. 4. Largo e Mesto
120. Echoes. 37. Or Ever the Knightly Years Were Gone
121. Echoes. 21. We Flash across the Level
122. In Hospital. 26. Anterotics
123. In Hospital. 9. Lady-Probationer
124. Echoes. 32. O, Falmouth Is a Fine Town
125. Echoes. 28. Blithe Dreams Arise to Greet Us
126. Orientale
127. Ballade of the Toyokuni Colour-Print
128. In Hospital. 10. Staff-Nurse: New Style
129. Echoes. 15. There Is a Wheel Inside My Head
130. Rhymes and Rhythms. 20. The Shadow of Dawn
131. Echoes. 17. The Sands Are Alive with Sunshine
132. In Hospital. 22. Pastoral
133. In Hospital. 18. Children: Private Ward
134. Attadale, West Highlands
135. Rhymes and Rhythms. 23. Here They Trysted, Here They Strayed
136. In Hospital. 7. Vigil
137. Echoes. 14. The Wan Sun Westers, Faint and Slow
138. In Hospital. 3. Interior
139. Envoy
140. Echoes. 44. If It Should Come to Be
141. In Hospital. 14. Ave, Caeser!
142. Beside the Idle Summer Sea
143. Echoes. 22. The West a Glimmering Lake of Light
144. London Voluntaries. 5. Allegro Maëstoso
145. Rhymes and Rhythms. 21. When the Wind Storms by with a Shout, and the Stern Sea-Caves
146. In Hospital. 12. Etching

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