List of poems by William Ernest Henley 178 total
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| Invictus | 2,826 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| One With The Ruined Sunset | 472 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Why, My Heart, Do We Love Her So? | 416 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Gull In An Aery Morrice | 399 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Anterotics | 397 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| To Me At My Fifth-Floor Window | 396 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Beside The Idle Summer Sea | 389 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| O, Have You Blessed, Behind The Stars | 389 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| I Gave My Heart To A Woman | 379 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| There Is A Wheel Inside My Head | 354 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Out Of The Night That Covers Me | 349 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Anterotics | 343 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| The Sands Are Alive With Sunshine | 315 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Praise The Generous Gods | 313 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Life In Her Creaking Shoes | 310 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Suicide | 307 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| A Dainty Thing's The Villanelle | 304 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Friends.... Old Friends...... | 261 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| There's a Regret | 225 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Waiting | 225 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| A Love By The Sea | 185 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| The Full Sea Rolls And Thunders | 174 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| A Desolate Shore | 165 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Kate-A-Whimsies, John-A-Dream | 161 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Madam Life's a Piece in Bloom | 161 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Between the Dusk of a Summer Night | 158 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Music | 155 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| A Late Lark Twitters From The Quiet Skies | 151 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Margaritae Sorori | 151 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| The Song Of The Sword--To Rudyard Kipling | 148 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Thick Is The Darkness | 144 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| If It Should Come To Be | 140 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Romance | 137 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Midsummer Midnight Skies | 136 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Pro Rege Nostro | 135 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| A Child | 133 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Ballade Made In The Hot Weather | 133 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Ballade Of Truisms | 132 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Operation | 131 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| We Flash Across The Level | 131 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| It Came With The Threat Of A Waning Moon | 128 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| The Gods Are Dead | 126 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Under A Stagnant Sky | 126 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| The Spring, My Dear | 125 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Tree, Old Tree Of The Triple Crook | 125 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Here They Trysted, And Here They Strayed | 122 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| O Gather Me the Rose | 121 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| The Spirit Of Wine | 121 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Fill A Glass With Golden Wine | 120 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| London Voluntaries IV: Out of the Poisonous East | 120 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| We'll go No More A-Roving | 120 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| The West A Glimmering Lake Of Light | 119 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| When The Wind Storms By With A Shout | 119 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| In The Waste Hour | 118 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Staff Nurse: New Style | 118 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Unconquerable | 118 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| While The West Is Paling | 117 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Apparition | 116 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Ballade Of Youth And Age | 116 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| England, My England | 116 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Trees And The Menace Of Night | 116 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| You Played And Sang A Snatch Of Song | 115 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Attadale, West Highlands | 114 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| We Are The Choice Of The Will | 114 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| What Have I Done For You | 112 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| London Types:Life-Guardsman | 111 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Life Is Bitter | 110 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| O, Time And Change, They Range And Range | 108 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Andante Con Moto | 107 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Barmaid | 107 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Grave | 107 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| At Queensferry | 106 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| We Shall Surely Die | 106 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Villon's Straight Tip to All Cross Coves | 105 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| On The Way To Kew | 104 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| To My Wife | 104 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Scrubber | 103 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| The Rain and the Wind | 103 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| From A Window In Princes Street | 101 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Prologue | 101 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Scherzando | 101 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Last Post | 99 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Orientale | 99 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Double Ballade on the Nothingness of Things | 98 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| The Nightingale Has A Lyre Of Gold | 98 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| A Thanksgiving | 97 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| As Like The Woman As You Can | 97 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Where Forlorn Sunsets Flare And Fade | 97 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Your Heart Has Trembled To My Tongue | 97 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| A New Song to an Old Tune | 96 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Pastoral | 96 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Croquis | 95 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Some Starlit Garden Grey With Dew | 94 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| London Types: Drum-Major | 93 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| What Is To Come | 92 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Interior | 91 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| House-Surgeon | 89 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| She Saunters By The Swinging Seas | 89 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| The Skies Are Strown With Stars | 89 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Epilogue | 88 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| The Chief | 88 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| In The Year That's Come and Gone | 85 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Allegro Maestoso | 84 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| The Wan Sun Westers, Faint And Slow | 83 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Time And The Earth | 83 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Ballade Of A Toyokuni Colour-Print | 82 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Ballade of Dead Actors | 82 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Envoy--To Charles Baxter | 82 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| In Rotten Row | 82 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| The Past Was Goodly Once | 82 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| When You Are Old | 82 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| From The Break The Nightingale | 81 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| The Shadow Of Dawn | 81 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Villanelle | 81 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Interlude | 79 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Vigil | 78 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Arabian Night's Entertainments | 77 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| In Fisherrow | 76 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| The Surges Gushed And Sounded | 76 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Over the Hills and Far Away | 75 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Ave, Caesar! | 74 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| London Types: Hawker | 73 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Crosses And Troubles | 72 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| I am the Reaper | 71 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| If I Were King | 71 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Easy is the Triolet | 70 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| London Types: Bus Driver | 70 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Space And Dread and The Dark | 70 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Not To The Staring Day | 68 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| London Types: Beef-Eater | 67 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| A Wink From Hesper | 66 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Clinical | 66 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| O, Falmouth Is a Fine Town | 65 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Casualty | 63 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Back-View | 62 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| London Types: Bluecoat Boy | 61 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| I. M. R. T. Hamilton Bruce (1846-1899) | 60 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| When You Wake In Your Crib | 60 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Dedication--To My Wife | 59 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| After | 58 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Fresh From His Fastnesses | 57 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| The Ways Of Death Are Soothing And Serene | 55 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Etching | 54 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| To: W A | 54 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| London Types: Mounted Police | 53 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Children: Private Ward | 52 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Let Us Be Drunk | 52 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| London Types: | 52 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| London Types: Barmaid | 52 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| London Types: Sandwich-Man | 51 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Blithe Dreams Arise To Greet Us | 50 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Before | 49 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Bring Her Again, O Western Wind | 49 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Nocturn | 49 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Ballade Of Midsummer Days And Nights | 48 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| The Ways Are Green | 47 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Discharged | 46 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Largo E Mesto | 46 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| In The Placid Summer Midnight | 45 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| London Types: 'Liza | 44 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| London Types: The Artist Muses At His Ease | 44 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| To My Mother | 44 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Enter Patient | 43 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Staff Nurse:Old Style | 43 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Double Ballad Of Life And Death | 39 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| In The Dials | 39 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| The Sea Is Full Of Wandering Foam | 39 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| London Types: Flower-Girl | 37 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| London Types: News Boy | 37 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Lady Probationer | 29 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Visitor | 25 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Admiral Guinea | 11 Views added by anonymous 3 years ago | Rate it |
| Ballade (Double Refrain) Of Midsummer Days And Nights - To W. H. | 11 Views added by anonymous 3 years ago | Rate it |
| Ballade (Double Refrain) Of Youth And Age - I. M. Thomas Edward Brown | 9 Views added by anonymous 3 years ago | Rate it |
| Arabian Nights' Entertainments - To Elizabeth Robins Pennell | 7 Views added by anonymous 3 years ago | Rate it |
| At Queensferry - To W. G. S. | 3 Views added by anonymous 3 years ago | Rate it |
| Back-View - To D. F. | 3 Views added by anonymous 3 years ago | Rate it |
| Attadale West Highlands - To A. J. | 1 View added by anonymous 3 years ago | Rate it |
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