BIB_ID
104124
Accession number
MA 1617.594
Creator
Henley, William Ernest, 1849-1903.
Display Date
Place not specified, undated.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Description
17 items (7 pages) ; 26.2 x 20.3 and 19.2 x 20.3 cm
Notes
Last page trimmed.
Lightly revised.
Includes: "If I were king, it seems to me;" "You fell asleep before the fire;" "I cannot send you gifts today;" "I cannot view your shining hair;" "The month is May, the sun is high;" "Bring her again, thou western wind"; "Blackbirds are bugling, mad with mirth and May;" "She sauntered by the swinging seas"; "A thin, clear glaze of silvery green;" "There is a wheel within my head"; "Time & Chance, Time & Chance have met;" "The winds & beams & billows"; "While the miser wakes to grasp;" "A thin, grey fog slides shivering from the west;" "I had a dream of love & you;" "You gave me meat, you brought me wine;" "But know me for a Might-Have-Been."
Lightly revised.
Includes: "If I were king, it seems to me;" "You fell asleep before the fire;" "I cannot send you gifts today;" "I cannot view your shining hair;" "The month is May, the sun is high;" "Bring her again, thou western wind"; "Blackbirds are bugling, mad with mirth and May;" "She sauntered by the swinging seas"; "A thin, clear glaze of silvery green;" "There is a wheel within my head"; "Time & Chance, Time & Chance have met;" "The winds & beams & billows"; "While the miser wakes to grasp;" "A thin, grey fog slides shivering from the west;" "I had a dream of love & you;" "You gave me meat, you brought me wine;" "But know me for a Might-Have-Been."
Provenance
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Summary
Autograph fair copies of seventeen love poems numbered I-XVII some being early versions of poems later published in "A Book of Verses", 1888.
Catalog link
Department