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Poetry · 1898

Poems

William Ernest Henley

Reading time
about 1.5 h
Length
22,823 words · 147 pages
Structure
105 chapters · 1 front-matter section
Language
English
Era
Victorian

Poems, first published in 1898, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.

Contents

  1. Note
  2. In Hospital
  3. I — Enter Patient
  4. II — Waiting
  5. III — Interior
  6. IV — Before
  7. V — Operation
  8. VI — After
  9. VII — Vigil
  10. VIII — Staff-Nurse: Old Style
  11. IX — Lady-Probationer
  12. X — Staff-Nurse: New Style
  13. XI — Clinical
  14. XII — Etching
  15. XIII — Casualty
  16. XIV — Ave Caeser!
  17. XV — ‘The Chief’
  18. XVI — House-Surgeon
  19. XVII — Interlude
  20. XVIII — Children: Private Ward
  21. XIX — Scrubber
  22. XX — Visitor
  23. XXI — Romance
  24. XXII — Pastoral
  25. XXIII — Music
  26. XXIV — Suicide
  27. XXV — Apparition
  28. XXVI — Anterotics
  29. XXVII — Nocturn
  30. XXVIII — Discharged
  31. Bric-À-Brac
  32. Ballade of a Toyokuni Colour-Print
  33. Ballade of Truisms
  34. At Queensferry
  35. Orientale
  36. In Fisherrow
  37. Back-View
  38. Croluis
  39. Attadale West Highlands
  40. From a Window in Princes Street
  41. In the Dials
  42. The Gods Are Dead
  43. When You Are Old
  44. Beside the Idle Summer Sea
  45. We Shall Surely Die
  46. What Is to Come
  47. Echoes
  48. Gil Blas Au Lecteur
  49. I — To My Mother
  50. II
  51. III
  52. IV
  53. V
  54. VI
  55. VII
  56. VIII
  57. IX
  58. X
  59. XI
  60. XII
  61. XIII
  62. XIV
  63. XV
  64. XVI
  65. XVII
  66. XVIII
  67. XIX
  68. XX
  69. XXI
  70. XXII
  71. XXIII
  72. XXIV
  73. XXV
  74. XXVI
  75. XXVII
  76. XXVIII
  77. XXIX
  78. XXX
  79. XXXI
  80. XXXII
  81. XXXIII
  82. XXXIV
  83. XXXV
  84. XXXVI
  85. XXXVII
  86. XXXVIII
  87. XXXIX
  88. XL
  89. XLVI
  90. XLII
  91. XLII
  92. XLIV
  93. XLV
  94. XLVI
  95. XLVII
  96. London Voluntaries
  97. I
  98. II
  99. III
  100. IV
  101. V
  102. Rhymes and Rhythms
  103. I
  104. II
  105. III
  106. IV
  107. V
  108. VI
  109. VII
  110. VIII
  111. IX
  112. X
  113. XI
  114. XII
  115. XIII
  116. XIV
  117. XV
  118. XVI
  119. XVII
  120. XVIII
  121. XIX
  122. XX
  123. XXI
  124. XXII
  125. XXIII
  126. XXIV
  127. XXV

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