Diagnosed as a child with tuberculosis of the bone, the disease plagued him throughout his life and caused the amputation of a leg when he was not yet twenty. William Ernest Henley (1849 - 1903) was an English editor, poet, and playwright. Her good handsĪre comforting, and helping and her voiceįalls on the heart, as, after Winter, Springįalls on the World, and there is no more pain.Ask for this YDP anthology at your favorite bookstore or order it online today! Storm-wrought, a place of quakes, all thunder-scarred, Have leave to strive, and suffer, and achieve. To those great altitudes, whereat the weak New-pithed, new-souled, new-visioned, up the steeps With victory, rises, menaces, stands renewed, Though they seem of the living, are damned and dead. Till the very Sides of the Grave fall in.įor the strife of Love's the abysmal strife,Īnd the word of Love is the Word of Life. Yea, each with the other will lose and win, Till the very Springs of the Sea run dust. Love, which is lust, is the Centric Fire. Love, which is lust, is the Main of Desire. Love, which is lust, is the Call from the Gloom. Love, which is lust, is the Lamp in the Tomb.Life - life - life! 'Tis the sole great thing.Heart on heart in the wonder of Spring! 1910 edition online Hawthorn and Lavender (1901) Life - life - life! 'Tis the sole great thing Who says that we shall pass, or the fame of us fade and die,īetter a thousand times the roaring hours. ![]() Sons of the Will, we fought the fight of the Will, our sire. Marching, building, sailing, pillar of cloud or fire, (Had we hacked it to the Pit, we had left it a place of peace!). While the living stars fulfil their round in the living sky?Įast and west and north, wherever the battle grew,Īs men to a feast we fared, the work of the Will to do.īent upon vast beginnings, bidding anarchy cease. Who says that we shall pass, or the fame of us fade and die, Set us a sword to wield none else could lift and draw,Īnd bade us forth to the sound of the trumpet of the Law. That called us into line, set in our hand a sword We are the Choice of the Will: God, when He gave the word Of God's best gift that to us twain returns, ![]() In the young life that round us leaps and laughs, Old dreams and faded, and as we may rejoice 'Tis time to creep in close about the fireĪnd tell grey tales of what we were, and dream Grow formal, and the wonder-working bours Later published in Rhymes and Rhythms and Arabian Nights' Entertainments (1909) Rhymes And Rhythms Marching, building, sailing, pillar of cloud or fire, Poems, 19th edition (1919) onlineįirst-footing the dawns, they flourished, ![]() Poems (1898) My songs are now of the sunset:Īnd wet with the dews of night. From first to last from the time of Chateaubriand to the time of Zola, he was a leader of men and with his departure from the scene the undivided sovereignty of literature became a thing of the past like Alexander's empire. There is hardly a department of art to a foremost place in which he did not prove his right. Born almost with the century, he was a writer at fifteen, and at his death he was writing still so that the record of his career embraces a period of more than sixty years. It has been given to few or none to live a life so full of effort and achievement, so rich in honour and success and fame. Plainly Hugo was the greatest man of letters of his day.the editions are not consistent with one another.) Views and Reviews (1889) (NB This Part did not appear in the 1888 edition, but features in the 1891 edition - i.e. See at p.111-112 of the 1891 edition of 'A Book of Verses'. Life is (I think) a blunder and a shame.] A Book of Verses (1888) 1888 edition online 1891 edition online In Hospital From the winter’s gray despair, No beggar thou that thou for alms shouldst sue:īe the proud captain still of thine own fate. Though the black camel Death kneel at thy gate [The poem may have inspired later lines of "A Challenge" from "Quatrains" by James Benjamin Kenyon, published in An American Anthology, 1787-1900 (1901) edited by Edmund Clarence Stedman:. ![]()
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