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

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