(1849 - 1902 / Gloucester / England)

poet William Ernest Henley
#74 on top 500 poets

Poems of William Ernest Henley

1. A Child 4/12/2010
2. A Dainty Thing's The Villanelle 4/12/2010
3. A Desolate Shore 4/12/2010
4. A Late Lark Twitters From The Quiet Skies 4/12/2010
5. A Love By The Sea 4/12/2010
6. A New Song to an Old Tune 4/12/2010
7. A Thanksgiving 4/12/2010
8. A Wink From Hesper 4/12/2010
9. After 4/12/2010
10. Allegro Maestoso 4/12/2010
11. Andante Con Moto 4/12/2010
12. Anterotics 4/12/2010
13. Anterotics 4/12/2010
14. Apparition 4/12/2010
15. Arabian Night's Entertainments 4/12/2010
16. As Like The Woman As You Can 4/12/2010
17. At Queensferry 4/12/2010
18. Attadale, West Highlands 4/12/2010
19. Ave, Caesar! 4/12/2010
20. Back-View 4/12/2010

Croquis

The beach was crowded. Pausing now and then,
He groped and fiddled doggedly along,
His worn face glaring on the thoughtless throng
The stony peevishness of sightless men.
He seemed scarce older than his clothes. Again,
Grotesquing thinly many an old sweet song,
So cracked his fiddle, his hand so frail and wrong,
You hardly could distinguish one in ten.
He stopped at last, and sat him on the sand,

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