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 ...
William Ernest Henley Poems (36 Poems)
Andante Con Moto (William Ernest Henley Poems)
Forth from the dust and din,The crush, the heat, the many-spotted glare,The odour and sense of life and lust aflare,The ...
Allegro Maestoso (William Ernest Henley Poems)
Spring winds that blowAs over leagues of myrtle-blooms and may;Bevies of spring clouds trooping slow,Like matrons heavy bosomed and aglowWith ...
A Desolate Shore (William Ernest Henley Poems)
A desolate shore,The sinister seduction of the Moon,The menace of the irreclaimable Sea.Flaunting, tawdry and grim,From cloud to cloud along ...
As Like The Woman As You Can (William Ernest Henley Poems)
'As like the Woman as you can' -(Thus the New Adam was beguiled) -'So shall you touch the Perfect Man' ...
A New Song to an Old Tune (William Ernest Henley Poems)
SONS of Shannon, Tamar, Trent,Men of the Lothians, Men of Kent,Essex, Wessex, shore and shire,Mates of the net, the mine, ...
A Love By The Sea (William Ernest Henley Poems)
Out of the starless night that covers me,(O tribulation of the wind that rolls!)Black as the cloud of some tremendous ...
A Late Lark Twitters From The Quiet Skies (William Ernest Henley Poems)
the quiet skies:And from the west,Where the sun, his day's work ended,Lingers as in content,There falls on the old, gray ...
A Dainty Thing’s The Villanelle (William Ernest Henley Poems)
A DAINTY thing's the Villanelle,Sly, musical, a jewel in rhyme,It serves its purpose passing well.A double-clappered silver bellThat must be ...
Attadale, West Highlands (William Ernest Henley Poems)
A black and glassy float, opaque and still,The loch, at furthest ebb supine in sleep,Reversing, mirrored in its luminous deepThe ...
At Queensferry (William Ernest Henley Poems)
The blackbird sang, the skies were clear and cleanWe bowled along a road that curved a spineSuperbly sinuous and serpentineThro' ...
Apparition (William Ernest Henley Poems)
Thin-legged, thin-chested, slight unspeakably,Neat-footed and weak-fingered: in his face -Lean, large-boned, curved of beak, and touched with race,Bold-lipped, rich-tinted, mutable ...
After (William Ernest Henley Poems)
Like as a flamelet blanketed in smoke,So through the anaesthetic shows my life;So flashes and so fades my thought, at ...
A Child (William Ernest Henley Poems)
A child,Curious and innocent,Slips from his Nurse, and rejoicingLoses himself in the Fair.Thro' the jostle and dinWandering, he revels,Dreaming, desiring, ...
Back-View (William Ernest Henley Poems)
I watched you saunter down the sand:Serene and large, the golden weatherFlowed radiant round your peacock feather,And glistered from your ...
Ave, Caesar! (William Ernest Henley Poems)
From the winter's grey despair,From the summer's golden languor,Death, the lover of Life,Frees us for ever.Inevitable, silent, unseen,Everywhere always,Shadow by ...
A Thanksgiving (William Ernest Henley Poems)
From brief delights that rise to meOut of unfathomable dole,I thank whatever gods there beFor mine unconquerable soul.In the strong ...
Anterotics (William Ernest Henley Poems)
Laughs the happy April mornThro' my grimy, little window,And a shaft of sunshine pushesThro' the shadows in the square.Dogs are ...
A Wink From Hesper (William Ernest Henley Poems)
A wink from Hesper, fallingFast in the wintry sky,Comes through the even blue,Dear, like a word from you.Is it good-bye?Across ...
Barmaid (William Ernest Henley Poem)
Though, if you ask her name, she says Elise, Being plain Elizabeth, e'en let it pass, And own that, if ...
Double Ballade on the Nothingness of Things (William Ernest Henley Poem)
The big teetotum twirls, And epochs wax and wane As chance subsides or swirls; But of the loss and gain ...
Margaritae Sorori (William Ernest Henley Poem)
A LATE lark twitters from the quiet skies: And from the west, Where the sun, his day's work ended, Lingers ...
Villon’s Straight Tip to All Cross Coves (William Ernest Henley Poems)
"Tout aux tavernes et aux filles." Suppose you screeve? or go cheap-jack? Or fake the broads? or fig a nag? ...
Croquis (William Ernest Henley Poem)
The beach was crowded. Pausing now and then, He groped and fiddled doggedly along, His worn face glaring on the ...
I am the Reaper (William Ernest Henley Poem)
I am the Reaper. All things with heedful hook Silent I gather. Pale roses touched with the spring, Tall corn ...
England, My England (William Ernest Henley Poem)
WHAT have I done for you, England, my England? What is there I would not do, England, my own? With ...
London Voluntaries IV: Out of the Poisonous East (William Ernest Henley Poem)
Out of the poisonous East, Over a continent of blight, Like a maleficent Influence released From the most squalid cellerage ...
If I Were King (William Ernest Henley Poem)
If I were king, my pipe should be premier. The skies of time and chance are seldom clear, We would ...
Ballade of Dead Actors (William Ernest Henley Poem)
Where are the passions they essayed, And where the tears they made to flow? Where the wild humours they portrayed ...
The Rain and the Wind (William Ernest Henley Poem)
The rain and the wind, the wind and the rain -- They are with us like a disease: They worry ...