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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ECHOES: 34, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Life in her creaking shoes
Last Line: Love blows into the heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E.
Subject(s): Life
First Line: Life in her creaking shoes
Last Line: Love blows into the heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E.
Subject(s): Life
Love blows as the wind blows,
Love blows into the heart. --- Nile Boat-Song
Life in her creaking shoes
Goes, and more formal grows,
A round of calls and cues:
Love blows as the wind blows.
Blows! . . . in the quiet close
As in the roaring mart,
By ways no mortal knows
Love blows into the heart.
The stars some cadence use,
Forthright the river flows,
In order fall the dews,
Love blows as the wind blows:
Blows! . . . and what reckoning shows
The courses of his chart?
A spirit that comes and goes,
Love blows into the heart.
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