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Alfred Noyes's Poetry, by popularity

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  • Touchstone On A Bus
    Last night I rode with Touchstone on a bus
    From Ludgate Hill to World's End. It was he!
    16 lines
  • The Little Roads
    The great roads are all grown over
      That seemed so firm and white.
    25 lines
  • The war Widow
    Black-veiled, black-gowned, she rides in bus and train,
      With eyes that fill too listlessly for tears.
    39 lines
  • The Bell
    The Temple Bell was out of tune,
    That once out-melodied sun and moon.
    89 lines
  • On A Mountain Top
    On this high altar, fringed with ferns
      That darken against the sky,
    28 lines
  • The Symphony
    Wonder in happy eyes
      Fades, fades away:
    18 lines
  • Slave And Emperor
    "Our cavalry have rescued Nazareth from the enemy whose supermen
    described Christianity as a creed for slaves."
    39 lines
  • The Man Who Discovered The Use Of A Chair
    The man who discovered the use of a chair,
      _Odds--bobs--
    60 lines
  • The Reward Of Song
    _Why do we make our music?_
      Oh, blind dark strings reply:
    43 lines
  • The Union
    You that have gathered together the sons of all races,
      And welded them into one,
    28 lines
  • Peace
    Give me the pulse of the tide again
      And the slow lapse of the leaves,
    23 lines
  • The Open Door
    O Mystery of life,
    That, after all our strife,
    40 lines
  • Sunlight And Sea
    Give me the sunlight and the sea
    And who shall take my heaven from me?
    65 lines
  • The Chimney-Sweeps Of Cheltenham
    When hawthorn buds are creaming white,
      And the red foolscap all stuck with may,
    78 lines
  • The Humming Birds
    Green wing and ruby throat,
      What shining spell, what exquisite sorcery,
    28 lines
  • The Night Of The Lion
    "_And that a reply be received before midnight._"
    _British Ultimatum_.
    67 lines
  • Victory
    Before those golden altar-lights we stood,
      Each one of us remembering his own dead.
    142 lines
  • The Ghost Of The New World
    "_There are no ghosts in America._"
    57 lines
  • The Old Gentleman With The Amber Snuff-Box
    _The old gentleman, tapping his amber snuff-box
    (A heart-shaped snuff-box with a golden clasp)
    61 lines
  • The Phantom Fleet
    The sunset lingered in the pale green West:
      In rosy wastes the low soft evening star
    162 lines
  • The Companions
    How few are they that voyage through the night
      On that eternal quest,
    23 lines
  • Republic And Motherland
    (Written after entering New York Harbor at Daybreak)
    51 lines
  • Peace In A Palace
    "You were weeping in the night," said the Emperor,
      "Weeping in your sleep, I am told."
    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
  • The Road Through Chaos
    There is one road, one only, to the Light:
      A narrow way, but Freedom walks therein;
    39 lines
  • The Old Meeting House
    Its quiet graves were made for peace till Gabriel blows his horn.
        Those wise old elms could hear no cry
    57 lines
  • The Hills Of Youth
    Once, on the far blue hills,
    Alone with the pine and the cloud, in those high still places;
    37 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
  • The New Duckling
    "I want to be new," said the duckling.
      "O, ho!" said the wise old owl,
    38 lines
  • Riddles Of Merlin
    As I was walking
      Alone by the sea,
    25 lines
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