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Her Little Feet

By William Ernest Henley

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Her little feet!... Beneath us ranged the sea,         She sat, from sun and wind umbrella-shaded,     One shoe above the other danglingly,         And lo! a Something exquisitely graded,     Brown rings and white, distracting - to the knee!     The band was loud. A wild waltz melody         Flowed rhythmic forth. The nobodies paraded.     And thro' my dream went pulsing fast and free:              Her little feet.     Till she made room for some one. It was He!         A port-wine flavored He, a He who traded,     Rich, rosy, round, obese to a degree!     A sense of injury overmastered me.         Quite bulbously his ample boots upbraided              Her little feet.                             William Ernest Henley.

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William Ernest Henley

About William Ernest Henley

William Ernest Henley (1849–1903) was an English poet, critic, and editor best known for his poem "Invictus" ("I am the master of my fate / I am the captain of my soul"). Written while recovering from tuberculosis of the bone, it has become one of the most quoted poems of courage and resilience.

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