Poetry Codex

Victorian

William Ernest Henley

1849–1903

William Ernest Henley (1849–1903) was an English poet and editor whose leg was amputated in youth after tubercular illness, an experience recorded directly in his sequence In Hospital.

He is best remembered for Invictus, and his robust, muscular verse and criticism made him an influential figure among younger writers of the 1890s.

Poems (197)

  1. To My Wife
  2. In Hospital
  3. Enter Patient
  4. Waiting
  5. Interior
  6. Before
  7. Operation
  8. After
  9. Vigil
  10. Staff-nurse: Old Style
  11. Lady-probationer
  12. Staff-nurse: New Style
  13. Clinical
  14. Etching
  15. Casualty
  16. Ave Caeser!
  17. ‘the Chief’
  18. House-surgeon
  19. Interlude
  20. Children: Private Ward
  21. Scrubber
  22. Visitor
  23. Romance
  24. Pastoral
  25. Music
  26. Suicide
  27. Apparition
  28. Anterotics
  29. Nocturn
  30. Discharged
  31. The Old Infirmary, Edinburgh, 1873–75
  32. CHISWICK, _March_ 1888
  33. Bric-à-brac
  34. Ballade of a Toyokuni Colour-print
  35. Ballade of Truisms
  36. At Queensferry
  37. Orientale
  38. In Fisherrow
  39. Back-view
  40. Croluis
  41. Attadale West Highlands
  42. From a Window in Princes Street
  43. In the Dials
  44. The Gods Are Dead
  45. When You Are Old
  46. Beside the Idle Summer Sea
  47. We Shall Surely Die
  48. What is to Come
  49. Echoes
  50. To My Mother
  51. II
  52. V
  53. VI
  54. VIII
  55. XIII
  56. XIV
  57. XVII
  58. XIX
  59. XXI
  60. XXIII
  61. XXIV
  62. XXVI
  63. XXVII
  64. XXX
  65. XXXI
  66. XXXIII
  67. XXXVI
  68. XXXVIII
  69. XXXIX
  70. XL
  71. XLII
  72. XLIV
  73. XLVII
  74. London Voluntaries
  75. Prologue
  76. III
  77. IV
  78. VII
  79. IX
  80. X
  81. XI
  82. XII
  83. XV
  84. XVI
  85. XX
  86. XXII
  87. XXV
  88. Epilogue
  89. Prologue
  90. Envoy
  91. I.
  92. V
  93. VI
  94. VII
  95. VIII
  96. IX
  97. X
  98. XI
  99. XII
  100. XIV
  101. XV
  102. XVI
  103. XVII
  104. XVIII
  105. XIX
  106. XX
  107. XXI
  108. XXII
  109. XXIII
  110. XXIV
  111. XXV
  112. XXVI
  113. XXVII
  114. XXVIII
  115. XXIX
  116. XXX
  117. XXXI
  118. XXXII
  119. XXXIII
  120. XXXIV
  121. XXXV
  122. XXXVI
  123. XXXVII
  124. XXXVIII
  125. XXXIX
  126. XL
  127. XLI
  128. XLII
  129. XLIII
  130. XLV
  131. XLVI
  132. XLVII
  133. XLVIII
  134. XLIX
  135. L
  136. London Types
  137. Vi. 'liza
  138. Vii. 'lady'
  139. Muswell Hill, 1898
  140. III. Admiral Guinea
  141. Last Post
  142. I
  143. II
  144. III
  145. IV
  146. Epilogue
  147. Fill a Glass with Golden Wine
  148. By
  149. I
  150. II
  151. IV
  152. V
  153. VI
  154. VII
  155. IX
  156. X
  157. XI
  158. XII
  159. XIV
  160. XV
  161. XVI
  162. XIX
  163. XX
  164. XXI
  165. XXII
  166. XXV
  167. III
  168. Invictus
  169. Collige Rosas
  170. Arabian Nights’ Entertainments
  171. Double Ballade of Life and Fate
  172. Double Ballade of the Nothingness of Things
  173. XXVIII
  174. XXIX
  175. I. Bus-Driver
  176. II. Life-Guardsman
  177. III. Hawker
  178. IV. Beef-Eater
  179. V. Sandwich-Man
  180. VIII. Bluecoat Boy
  181. IX. Mounted Police
  182. X. News-Boy
  183. XI. Drum-Major
  184. XII. Flower-Girl
  185. XIII. Barmaid
  186. I. Beau Austin
  187. II. Richard Savage
  188. Two Days: February 15–September 28, 1894
  189. In Memoriam: Thomas Edward Brown
  190. In Memoriam: George Warrington Steevens
  191. In Memoriam: Reginae Dilectissimae Victoriae
  192. To D. H.
  193. With Strawberries
  194. Ballade of Ladies' Names
  195. Culture in the Slums
  196. Inter Sodales
  197. Villon's Straight Tip to All Cross Coves

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