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

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