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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
BALLADE OF A TOYOKUNI COLOUR-PRINT
BALLADE (DOUBLE REFRAIN) OF YOUTH AND AGE
BALLADE (DOUBLE REFRAIN) OF MIDSUMMER DAYS AND NIGHTS
BALLADE OF DEAD ACTORS
BALLADE MADE IN THE HOT WEATHER
BALLADE OF TRUISMS
DOUBLE BALLADE OF LIFE AND FATE
DOUBLE BALLADE OF THE NOTHINGNESS OF THINGS
AT QUEENSFERRY
ORIENTALE
IN FISHERROW
BACK-VIEW
CROQUIS
ATTADALE, WEST HIGHLANDS
FROM A WINDOW IN PRINCES STREET
IN THE DIALS
[The gods are dead? Perhaps they are! Who knows?]
To F. W.
[When you are old, and I am passed away—]
[Beside the idle summer sea]
I. M. R. G. C. B. 1878
[We shall surely die]
[What is to come we know not. But we know]
ECHOES
RHYMES AND RHYTHMS
HAWTHORN AND LAVENDER
LONDON VOLUNTARIES
LONDON TYPES
THREE PROLOGUES
FOR ENGLAND'S SAKE
EPICEDIA
APPENDIX
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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!
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