William Ernest Henley (1849 - 1903)

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William Ernest Henley (August 23, 1849 - July 11, 1903) was a British poet, critic and editor. Henley was born in Gloucester and educated at the Crypt Grammar School. The school was a poor relation of the Cathedral School, and Henley indicated its shortcomings in his article (Pall Mall Magazine, Nov. 1900) on T. E. Brown the poet, who was headmaster there for a brief period. Brown's appointment was a stroke of luck for Henley, for whom it represented a first acquaintance with a man of genius. .. Continue..

Some of William Ernest Henley Poems

Invictus

Madam Life's a Piece in Bloom

The Rain and the Wind

Between the Dusk of a Summer Night

I. M. R. T. Hamilton Bruce (1846-1899)

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	I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.

- William Ernest Henley

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