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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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In The Year That's Come and Gone

... In the year that's coming on, though many a troth be broken, ...

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What Is To Come

... . . even so. Shall we not take the ebb who had the flow ...

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One With The Ruined Sunset

... What is it calls in the twilight - ...

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Space And Dread and The Dark

... As the poor dead it huddles and swarms and styes ...

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The Chief

... Soft lines of tranquil thought his face fulfill - ...

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Ballade Made In The Hot Weather

... Envoy Dark aisles, new packs of cards, ...

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O, Time And Change, They Range And Range

... And we lie in the peace of the Great Release ...

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Lady Probationer

... Her plain print gown, prim cap, and bright steel chain ...

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Music

... Books, beds, bottles, floor, and ceiling ...

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Interior

... My neighbour chokes in the clutch of chloral ...

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A Late Lark Twitters From The Quiet Skies

... Thrills with a sense of the triumphing night- ...

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It Came With The Threat Of A Waning Moon

... O, leaf out of leaf is the way of the land, ...

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Bring Her Again, O Western Wind

... Gentle and good and fair and kind, ...

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The West A Glimmering Lake Of Light

... When lights and leaves and loves have been, ...

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To My Mother

...   To the spell of the wave and the shore ...