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Alfred Noyes's Poetry, by first line

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  • Art, The Herald
    I
    Yes! Beauty still rebels!
    58 lines
  • The Searchlights
    Shadow by shadow, stripped for fight,
    The lean black cruisers search the sea.
    42 lines
  • A Prayer in Time of War
    Thou, whose deep ways are in the sea,
    Whose footsteps are not known,
    25 lines, 5 comments
  • A Song of Sherwood
    Sherwood in the twilight, is Robin Hood awake?
    Grey and ghostly shadows are gliding through the brake,
    52 lines, 2 comments
  • The Matin-song of Friar Tuck
    I.
    If souls could sing to heaven's high King
    42 lines
  • The Barrel-Organ
    There's a barrel-organ carolling across a golden street
    In the City as the sun sinks low;
    136 lines
  • The Sussex Sailor
    O, once, by Cuckmere Haven,
    I heard a sailor sing
    48 lines
  • Shakespeare's Kingdom
    When Shakespeare came to London
    He met no shouting throngs;
    20 lines
  • Resurrection
    Once more I hear the everlasting sea
    Breathing beneath the mountain's fragrant
    50 lines
  • To The R. A. F.
    Never since English ships went out
    To singe the beard of Spain,
    16 lines, 4 comments
  • Shadows on the Down
    When daffodils danced in Chuck Hatch, and white clouds
    Drew their own shadowy purple across the hills,
    14 lines
  • Song
    I came to the door of the House of Love
    And knocked as the starry night went by;
    20 lines, 2 comments
  • The Elfin Artist
    In a glade of an elfin forest
    When Sussex was Eden-new,
    49 lines
  • Unity
    I.
    Heart of my heart, the world is young;
    27 lines, 1 comment
  • "In The Cool Of The Evening"
    In the cool of the evening, when the low sweet whispers waken,
    When the laborers turn them homeward, and the weary have their will,
    16 lines, 1 comment
  • "When Spring Comes Back To England"
    When Spring comes back to England
    And crowns her brows with May,
    24 lines, 1 comment
  • Epilogue
    Carol, every violet has
    Heaven for a looking-glass!
    31 lines
  • The New Duckling
    "I want to be new," said the duckling.
      "O, ho!" said the wise old owl,
    38 lines
  • The Old Fool In The Wood
    "If I could whisper you all I know,"
      Said the Old Fool in the Wood,
    22 lines
  • Slave And Emperor
    "Our cavalry have rescued Nazareth from the enemy whose supermen
    described Christianity as a creed for slaves."
    39 lines
  • Peace In A Palace
    "You were weeping in the night," said the Emperor,
      "Weeping in your sleep, I am told."
    58 lines
  • The Night Of The Lion
    "_And that a reply be received before midnight._"
    _British Ultimatum_.
    67 lines
  • The Ghost Of The New World
    "_There are no ghosts in America._"
    57 lines
  • The Trumpet Call
        Trumpeter, sound for the last Crusade!
    Sound for the fire of the red-cross kings,
    24 lines, 1 comment
  • Beethoven In Central Park
    (After a glimpse of a certain monument in New York, during the
    Victory Celebration)
    18 lines
  • A New Madrigal To An Old Melody
    (It is supposed that Shadow-of-a-Leaf uses the word "clear" in a
    more ancient sense of "beautiful.")
    38 lines
  • To A Successful Man
    (WHAT THE GHOSTS SAID.)
    And after all the labour and the pains,
    24 lines
  • Republic And Motherland
    (Written after entering New York Harbor at Daybreak)
    51 lines
  • The Realms Of Gold
    (Written after hearing a line of Keats repeated by a passing stranger
    under the palms of Southern California.)
    58 lines
  • What Grandfather Said
    (_An epistle from a narrow-minded old gentleman to a young artist of
    superior intellect and intense realism._)
    97 lines
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