Poems by William Ernest Henley
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... For whose dear sake their triumphing souls they shed, ...
Thick Is The Darkness
... Spread the sweet meadows ...
Waiting
... A small boy sniffs and shudders after bluestone ...
Ave, Caesar!
... Shadow by night and as light in the day, ...
Invictus
... How charged with punishments the scroll, ...
Beside The Idle Summer Sea
... Light Love came fluting down the ways, ...
Madam Life's a Piece in Bloom
... You would reason -- plead -- protest! ...
Between the Dusk of a Summer Night
... And what was his errand but hers and mine -- ...
I. M. R. T. Hamilton Bruce (1846-1899)
... How charged with punishments the scroll, ...
O Gather Me the Rose
... The dream that comes, the wish that goes ...
I am the Reaper
... Fall through my hands, ever changing, still changeless ...
London Voluntaries IV: Out of the Poisonous East
... 'Tis time -- 'tis time by his ancient watch -- to part ...
If I Were King
... If I were king.But politics should find no harbour near ...
Ballade of Dead Actors
... The youth, the grace, the charm, the glow ...
Double Ballade on the Nothingness of Things
... "O Vanity of Vanities!"Life is a smoke that curls-- ...