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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
RHYMES TO W. E. HENLEY (2), by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON 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
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
My letters fail, I learn with grief, to please
Proud spirits that sit and read them at their ease
Not recking how, from an exhausted mind,
By wheel and pulley, tug and strain and grind,
These humble efforts are expressed, like cheese.
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