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Subject: HENLEY, WILLIAM ERNEST (1849-1903)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` EH, MAN HENLEY, YOU'RE A DON!, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Eh, man henley, you're a don!
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Henley, William Ernest (1849-1903)


O HENLEY, IN MY HOURS OF EASE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: His correspondence to the devil!
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Henley, William Ernest (1849-1903); Poetry & Poets


RHYMES TO W. E. HENLEY (1), by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear henley, with a pig's snout on
Last Line: To make me uglier than I am.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Henley, William Ernest (1849-1903); Sickness; Illness


RHYMES TO W. E. HENLEY (2), by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My letters fail, I learn with grief, to please
Last Line: These humble efforts are expressed, like cheese.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Henley, William Ernest (1849-1903); Letters


RHYMES TO W. E. HENLEY (3), by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We dwell in these melodious days
Last Line: Blow my falsetto flageolet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Henley, William Ernest (1849-1903)


THE CAPTAIN; AFTER READING HENLEY'S INVICTUS, by DOROTHEA DAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Out of the light that dazzles me
Last Line: Christ is the captain of my soul.
Variant Title(s): My Captain
Subject(s): Henley, William Ernest (1849-1903); Jesus Christ


TO W. E. HENLEY, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Henley, what mark you in the sunset glare?
Last Line: Some one! O, yes! Your darling? Is it she?
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Henley, William Ernest (1849-1903)


UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 16. TO W. E. HENLEY, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The year runs through her phases; rain and sun
Last Line: And the deliverer, touch the stops again!
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Henley, William Ernest (1849-1903)