William Ernest Henley Poems

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21.
A Dainty Thing's The Villanelle

A DAINTY thing's the Villanelle,
Sly, musical, a jewel in rhyme,
It serves its purpose passing well.
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22.
A Late Lark Twitters From The Quiet Skies

the quiet skies:
And from the west,
Where the sun, his day's work ended,
Lingers as in content,
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23.
Out Of The Night That Covers Me

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
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24.
Double Ballade On The Nothingness Of Things

The big teetotum twirls,
And epochs wax and wane
As chance subsides or swirls;
But of the loss and gain
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25.
A New Song To An Old Tune

SONS of Shannon, Tamar, Trent,
Men of the Lothians, Men of Kent,
Essex, Wessex, shore and shire,
Mates of the net, the mine, the fire,
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26.
Operation

You are carried in a basket,
Like a carcase from the shambles,
To the theatre, a cockpit
Where they stretch you on a table.
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27.
If It Should Come To Be

If it should come to be,
This proof of you and me,
This type and sign
Of hours that smiled and shone,
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28.
After

Like as a flamelet blanketed in smoke,
So through the anaesthetic shows my life;
So flashes and so fades my thought, at strife
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29.
Kate-A-Whimsies, John-A-Dream

Kate-a-Whimsies, John-a-Dream
Still debating, still delay,
And the world’s a ghost that gleams –
Wavers – vanishes away!
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30.
Apparition

Thin-legged, thin-chested, slight unspeakably,
Neat-footed and weak-fingered: in his face -
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