Transcribed from the 1907 David Nutt edition by Diarmuid Pigott with some additional material and proofing by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

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POEMS

By

WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY

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

SHAKESPEARE

Tenth Impression

LONDON
Published by DAVID NUTT
at the Sign of the Phœnix
in Long Acre
1907

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 Impression printed August 1903
Seventh Impression printed February 1904
Eighth Impression printed May 1905
Ninth Impresion printed April 1906
Tenth Impression printed Nov. 1907