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

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