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

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