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

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