BIB_ID
104286
Accession number
MA 1617.605
Creator
Henley, William Ernest, 1849-1903.
Display Date
Place not specified, 1875 September 23.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 20.0 x 12.6 cm
Notes
Henley has titled the poem "I / Nous n'irons plus au bois."
Henley has written what may have been the start to an additional stanza or an alternate version of the second to last line of the final stanza. It reads "Tho', dead the mystic charm they wore" and in addition Henley wrote "secret grace" above "mystic charm."
Henley has written what may have been the start to an additional stanza or an alternate version of the second to last line of the final stanza. It reads "Tho', dead the mystic charm they wore" and in addition Henley wrote "secret grace" above "mystic charm."
Provenance
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Summary
A poem of two 4-line stanzas and one 5-line stanza beginning "We'll wander down the woods no more, / Too fruitful of regrets they spread" and ending "Tho, dead the promise that it bore, / We'll wander down the woods no more."
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