William Ernest Henley is a famous poet and suffers from tuberculosis seriously.In A Late Lark Twitters,he draws a comparison between the description of a scenery at sunset which is accompanied by the singing of a lark and the then formulated wish to die in the very same way,to leave the earth at the end of life like the sun at the end of day. William Ernest Henley is a famous poet and suffers from tuberculosis seriously. In A Late Lark Twitters, he draws a comparison between the description of a scenery at sunset which is accompanied by the singing of a lark and the then wish wish to die in the very same way, to leave the earth at the end of life like the sun at the end of day.