BIB_ID
103946
Accession number
MA 1617.580
Creator
Henley, William Ernest, 1849-1903.
Display Date
Place not specified, 1873-1876.
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Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Description
11 items (11 pages) ; 26.2 x 20.3 and 22.4 x 18.6 cm
Notes
Incomplete sequence of poems on death, 11 poems variously numbered I to XXVIII, fair copies, most with revisions.
Several poems are dated. The first poem is dated July 12, 1875, poem VI is dated December 7, 1873 and the final page, poem XXVIII is dated February 26-27, 1876.
Includes: "From the winter's wan despair;" "Life is bitter. All the faces of the Years;" "Mixing a dream by the way;" "Doubtful soul, grown sad with seeing;" "The hardest lesson we must learn;" "The west superb with insupportable gold;" "The sea was loud and splendid;" "Will you spend your breaths in prayer;" "A broken wave, a dying fire;" "In the placid summer midnight;" "Thick is the darkness" [an early version of the poem published in "A Book of Verses" (1888), p. 66].
Several poems are dated. The first poem is dated July 12, 1875, poem VI is dated December 7, 1873 and the final page, poem XXVIII is dated February 26-27, 1876.
Includes: "From the winter's wan despair;" "Life is bitter. All the faces of the Years;" "Mixing a dream by the way;" "Doubtful soul, grown sad with seeing;" "The hardest lesson we must learn;" "The west superb with insupportable gold;" "The sea was loud and splendid;" "Will you spend your breaths in prayer;" "A broken wave, a dying fire;" "In the placid summer midnight;" "Thick is the darkness" [an early version of the poem published in "A Book of Verses" (1888), p. 66].
Provenance
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
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