William Ernest Henley

1849-1903 / Male / English
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The Song Of The Sword--To Rudyard Kipling / The Sword / Singing--
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If It Should Come To BeIf it should come to be, / This proof of you and me, / This type and sign
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I. M.--Margaritae SororiA late lark twitters from the quiet skies; / And from the west, / Where the sun, his day's work ended,
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The Full Sea Rolls And ThundersThe full sea rolls and thunders / In glory and in glee. / O, bury me not in the senseless earth
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Invictus [I. M. To R. T. Hamilton Bruce (1846-1899)]Out of the night that covers me, / Black as the Pit from pole to pole, / I thank whatever gods may be
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InvictusOut of the night that covers me, / Black as the Pit from pole to pole, / I thank whatever gods may be
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Arabian Nights' Entertainments--To Elizabeth Robins Pennell / 'O mes cheres Mille et Une Nuits!'--Fantasio. / Once on a time
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Space And Dread And The DarkSpace and dread and the dark-- / Over a livid stretch of sky / Cloud-monsters crawling, like a funeral train
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SuicideStaring corpselike at the ceiling, / See his harsh, unrazored features, / Ghastly brown against the pillow,
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A Desolate ShoreA desolate shore, / The sinister seduction of the Moon, / The menace of the irreclaimable Sea.
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