Arabian Night’s Entertainments (William Ernest Henley Poems)
Once on a timeThere was a little boy: a master-mageBy virtue of a BookOf magic--O, so magical it filledHis life ...
Once on a timeThere was a little boy: a master-mageBy virtue of a BookOf magic--O, so magical it filledHis life ...
Our guns are a league behind us, our target a mile below,And there's never a cloud to blind us from ...
When I was not quite five years old I first saw the blue picture book,And Fraulein Spitzenburger toldStories that sent me ...
She sat on a shelf,her breasts two bellieson her poked-out belly,on which the navel lookedlike a sucked-in mouth-her knees bent ...
YOU ask me, What is love? It is a cravingTo spin the dawdling globe with a flicked finger Till meeting come, ...
WHEN I went into my room, at mid-morning,Say ten o'clock . . .My room, a crash-box over that great stone ...
Long lines of ships at moorings used to lieBesides the wharves of 'Frisco. All the dayThe chipping hammers rang upon ...
A saint about to fall,The stained flats of heaven hit and razedTo the kissed kite hems of his shawl,On the ...
Original Urdu tum jo naa aa'e the to har chiiz vahii thii kih jo haiaasmaaN hadd-e-nazar, raahguzar raahguzar, shiishaah-e-mai,shiishaah-e-maiaur ab ...
You can tyke h'it from me, 'e's as cool as a cucumber,Never goes balmy h'or loses 'is 'ead,Nothing h'at all ...
In the brown water, Thick and silver-sheened in the sunshine, Liquid and cool in the shade of the reeds, A ...
Part First Frau Concert-Meister Altgelt shut the door. A storm was rising, heavy gusts of wind Swirled through the trees, ...
There was a time in former years-- While my roof-tree was his-- When I should have been distressed by fears ...
I awoke with two poets in my bed, books I chose from the library, possibly intent on a swift read ...
At six o'clock we were waiting for coffee, waiting for coffee and the charitable crumb that was going to be ...
he sat naked and drunk in a room of summer night, running the blade of the knife under his fingernails, ...
That flower unseen, that gem of purest ray, Bright thoughts uncut by men: Strange that you need but speak them, ...
On silver sand where ripples curled I counted sea-gulls seven; Shy, secret screened from all the world, And innocent as ...
This is the tale that was told to me by the man with the crystal eye, As I smoked my ...
My most respected comrades of posterity! Rummaging among these days' petrified crap, exploring the twilight of our times, you, possibly, ...
White, white in the milky night The moon danced over a tree. "Wouldn't it be lovely to swim in the ...
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