William Ernest Henley (1849–1903)
Writer, poet, journalist, editor · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland · Gloucester – Woking
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English poet, critic and editor (1849–1903)
Poems
- 'The Chief'
- A child
- A desolate shore
- A Wink from Hesper
- After
- Allegro Maestoso
- Andante con Moto
- Anterotics
- Apparition
- Arabian Nights' Entertainments
- As like the Woman as you can
- At Queensferry
- Attadale, West Highlands
- Ave, Caesar!
- Back-View
- Ballade Made in the Hot Weather
- Ballade of a Toyokuni Colour-Print
- Ballade of Dead Actors
- Ballade of Midsummer Days and Nights
- Ballade of Truisms
- Ballade of Youth and Age
- Before
- Beside the Idle Summer Sea
- Blithe dreams arise to greet us
- Bring her again, O western wind
- Casualty
- Children: Private Ward
- Clinical
- Croquis
- Crosses and troubles
- Discharged
- Double Ballade of Life and Fate
- Double Ballade of the Nothingness of Things
- Enter Patient
- Etching
- Fill a glass with golden wine
- Fresh from his fastnesses
- Friends . . . old friends . . .
- From a Window in Princes Street
- From the Brake the Nightingale
- Grave
- Gulls in an Aëry Morrice
- Here They Trysted, Here They Strayed
- House-Surgeon
- I am the Reaper
- I Gave My Heart to a Woman
- If it should come to be
- In Fisherrow
- In the Dials
- In the placid summer midnight
- In the waste hour
- In the year that's come and gone
- Interior
- Interlude
- Invictus
- Invictus Translation
- It came with the threat of a waning moon
- Kate-a-Whimsies, John-a-Dreams
- Lady-Probationer
- Largo e Mesto
- Let us be drunk
- Life in her creaking shoes
- Life is bitter
- Madam Life's a piece in bloom
- Margaritæ Sorori
- Midsummer midnight skies
- Music
- Nocturn
- Not to the staring Day
- O, Falmouth is a fine town
- O, gather me the rose
- O, have you blessed, behind the stars
- O, Time and Change
- On the way to Kew
- One with the ruined sunset
- Operation
- Or ever the knightly years were gone
- Orientale
- Pastoral
- Poems (Henley)
- Praise the generous gods
- Prologue
- Romance
- Scherzando
- Scrubber
- She sauntered by the swinging seas
- Some starlit garden grey with dew
- Space and dread and the dark
- Staff-Nurse: New Style
- Staff-Nurse: Old Style
- Suicide
- The full sea rolls and thunders
- The gods are dead
- The nightingale has a lyre of gold
- The past was goodly once
- The sands are alive with sunshine
- The sea is full of wandering foam
- The shadow of Dawn
- The skies are strown with stars
- The Song of the Sword
- The Spirit of Wine
- The spring, my dear
- The surges gushed and sounded
- The wan sun westers, faint and slow
- The ways are green
- The ways of Death are soothing and serene
- The West a glimmering lake of light
- There is a wheel inside my head
- There's a regret
- Thick is the darkness
- Time and the Earth
- To me at my fifth-floor window
- To my Mother
- Tree, Old Tree of the Triple Crook
- Trees and the menace of night
- Under a stagnant sky
- Vigil
- Visitor
- Waiting
- We are the Choice of the Will
- We flash across the level
- We shall surely die
- We'll go no more a-roving
- What have I done for you
- What is to come
- When the wind storms by with a shout
- When you wake in your crib
- Where forlorn sunsets flare and fade
- While the west is paling
- Why, my heart, do we love her so
- You played and sang a snatch of song
- Your heart has trembled to my tongue