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Born in August 23, 1849 / Died in July 11, 1903 / United Kingdom / English

Poems by William Ernest Henley

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There Is A Wheel Inside My Head

... And, love and laughter! who gave him the cue ...

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Staff Nurse:Old Style

... The broad Scots tongue that flatters, scolds, defies ...

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There's A Regret

... That might, yet would not, dared not, let this be, ...

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Life In Her Creaking Shoes

... Blows! . . . and what reckoning shows ...

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To Me At My Fifth-Floor Window

... And the smoke that whirls and eddies ...

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Back-View

... Streaked the rough tartan, green like heather, ...

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The Nightingale Has A Lyre Of Gold

... And the blackbird plays but a boxwood flute, ...

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We'll go No More A-Roving

... Glad ways and words remembered would shame the wretched year ...

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The Rain And The Wind

...   As they shoulder and clutch at the shrieking pane, ...

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Unconquerable

... How charged with punishments the scroll, ...

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A Bowl Of Roses

... And the soul of them rose like a presence, ...

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Allegro Maestoso

... Still reigns and triumphs, as he hath triumphed and reigned ...

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Easy is the Triolet

...   With another rhyme, Deuce take it, ...

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The Past Was Goodly Once

... The Past that, goodly once, is gone and dead and done ...

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The Song Of The Sword--To Rudyard Kipling

... The voice of the Sword from the heart of the Sword ...