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Poems

by William Ernest Henley

Henley, William Ernest (1849-1903)

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TO MY WIFE

[Ask me not how they came]

IN HOSPITAL

THE SONG OF THE SWORD

ARABIAN NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENTS

BRIC-A-BRAC

ECHOES

RHYMES AND RHYTHMS

HAWTHORN AND LAVENDER

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IN MEMORIAM GEORGE WARRINGTON STEEVENS

London, December 10, 1869. Ladysmith, January 15, 1900.

We cheered you forth—brilliant and kind and brave.
Under your country's triumphing flag you fell.
It floats, true Heart, over no dearer grave—
Brave and brilliant and kind, hail and farewell!