Alfred Noyes
Alfred Noyes
Alfred Noyes CBE was an English poet, short-story writer and playwright, best known for his ballads, "The Highwayman" and "The Barrel-Organ"...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth16 September 1880
cloudy ghostly moon seas
The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas
distance sky sea
There’s a magic in the distance, where the sea-line meets the sky.
flower tolls fading
Beauty is a fading flower,Truth is but a wizard's tower,Where a solemn death-bell tolls,And a forest round it rolls.
moon doors wind
The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, The road was a ribbon of moonlight, over the purple moor, And the highwayman came riding-- Riding--riding-- The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.
love-is proud world
Outlawed, but not alone, for Love Is outlawed, too. You cannot banish us, proud world: We banish you.
moon two bud
Bring the buds of the hazel-copse, Where two lovers kissed at noon; Bring the crushed red wild-thyme tops Where they murmured under the moon....
easter strange resurrection
Luke associates John with Peter in Acts, when, after the Resurrection, that strange boldness had come upon the disciples.
distance men order
At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God.