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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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Here They Trysted, And Here They Strayed

... Here they trysted, here they strayed, ...

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London Types: Hawker

... Some penn'orth of wit-in-fact that, with a grin, ...

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Arabian Night's Entertainments

... And behold! Questing therefrom, you knew not what wild tide ...

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Grave

... (Hark! how those plangent comforters call and cry!) ...

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Prologue

... In the young life that round us leaps and laughs, ...

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Scherzando

... The windows, with their fleeting, flickering fires, ...

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Time And The Earth

... Through the tents of his children, ...

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The Ways Are Green

... O, the shadows that fleet o'er the springing wheat! ...

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In Fisherrow

... Nor seems their picked, stern, old-world quaintness wrong ...

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Casualty

... Stood and looked and sighed a little, ...

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The Skies Are Strown With Stars

... Clanks glowing through the stillness: ...

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Suicide

... In his broad face, tanned and bloodless, ...

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A Desolate Shore

... Crawls free of their secrets, and their broken sides ...

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London Types: Bus Driver

... he treats With scoffing calm whatever powers there be ...

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Under A Stagnant Sky

... Where life and life might live life lost in life ...