POEMS

By

WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY

The summer's flower is to the summer sweet,
Though to itself it only live and die.

SHAKESPEARE

Eighth Edition
(REVISED)

NEW YORK

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

153-157 FIFTH AVENUE

23452.38.6

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY

First Edition printed January 1898
Second Edition printed March 1898
Third Edition printed September 1898
Fourth Edition printed January 1900
Fifth Edition printed December 1901
Sixth Edition printed August 1903
Seventh Edition printed February 1904
Eighth Edition printed March 1905

Edinburgh: T. and A. CONSTABLE, Printers to His Majesty