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

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