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Available Poems in A Book of Verses (by William Ernest Henley )

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  • A wink from Hesper, falling  (Fritz Bennicke Hart)
  • Bring her again, O western wind  ([more than ten composers]) CHI
  • Dedication - to my wife  (Hugo Riesenfeld, Landon Ronald, Sir)
  • Fill a glass with golden wine  (George Sainton Kaye Butterworth, Henry Kimball Hadley, Roger Quilter)
  • From the brake the Nightingale  (Sidney Homer, Roger Quilter, Wintter Haynes Watts)
  • I am the Reaper  (Jonathan Elkus, Fritz Bennicke Hart)
  • In the year that's come and gone, love, his flying feather  (George Sainton Kaye Butterworth, Fritz Bennicke Hart)
  • Invictus  (Vivian Fine, Bruno Siegfried Huhn, Marshall Rutgers Kernochan, Francis Alexander Korbay, Charles Albert Lidgey, Carl F. Mueller, Martin Edward Fallas Shaw) GER GER
  • Kate-a-Whimsies, John-a-Dreams  (Fritz Bennicke Hart)
  • Life in her creaking shoes  (George Sainton Kaye Butterworth)
  • Of rain  (Charles Willeby)
  • O gather me the rose, the rose  (Fritz Bennicke Hart, John Theodore Livingston Raynor)
  • On the way to Kew  (George Sainton Kaye Butterworth, Robert Coningsby Clarke, Arthur Foote, Albert Mallinson)
  • Or ever the knightly years were gone  (Cecil Forsyth)
  • Praise the generous gods for giving  (Fritz Bennicke Hart)
  • Sang in my glass, and I listened  (Henry Waller)
  • She sauntered by the swinging seas  (Hubert James Foss, Fritz Bennicke Hart, Edward Burlingame Hill, Lewis M. Issacs)
  • The full sea rolls and thunders  (Francis Brinkworth, Ivor Gurney, Francis Alexander Korbay) ITA
  • The nightingale has a lyre of gold  ([more than ten composers]) GER
  • The pretty washermaiden  (William Lloyd Webber)
  • There is a wheel inside my head  (Piero Coppola)
  • The sea is full of wandering foam  (Amy Marcy Cheney Beach, Ivor Gurney, Fritz Bennicke Hart)
  • The skies are strown with stars  (Fritz Bennicke Hart)
  • The spring, my dear  (Frances Allitsen, Harry Thacker Burleigh, Fritz Bennicke Hart, Courtlandt Palmer, Landon Ronald, Sir, Maude Valérie White)
  • The surges gushed and sounded  (Fritz Bennicke Hart)
  • The ways are green with the gladdening sheen  (Maude Valérie White)
  • Thick is the darkness  (Fritz Bennicke Hart, William Spencer Johnson, Francis Alexander Korbay, Samuel Liddle)
  • To D. H.  (Arthur Dyce Duckworth, Rosamond Francillon, Martin Edward Fallas Shaw, Wintter Haynes Watts)
  • To me at my fifth-floor window  (Albert Mallinson)
  • To my mother  (Elizabeth Youel Allen)
  • To my mother II  (Fritz Bennicke Hart)
  • Vigil  (Theodore Ward Chanler)
  • We flash across the level  (Albert Mallinson)
  • We'll go no more a-roving by the light of the moon  (Landon Ronald, Sir)
  • We'll to the woods, and gather May  (H. Grant Fletcher, Charles Tomlinson Griffes)
  • We shall surely die  (Fritz Bennicke Hart)
  • While the west is paling  (Harvey Bartlett Gaul, Fritz Bennicke Hart, Francis Alexander Korbay, Wintter Haynes Watts)
  • With strawberries we filled a tray  (Norman Houston O'Neill, Leo Sowerby)
  • Your heart has trembled to my tongue  (Fritz Bennicke Hart, Landon Ronald, Sir)

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