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

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