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Alfred Noyes's Poetry, by title

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  • "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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Alzuna
    The forest of Alzuna hides a pool.
        Beside that pool, a shadowy tree up-towers.
    17 lines
  • An Open Boat
    O, what is that whimpering there in the darkness?
    "Let him lie in my arms. He is breathing, I know.
    18 lines
  • Art, The Herald
    I
    Yes! Beauty still rebels!
    58 lines
  • At Dawn
    O Hesper-Phosphor, far away
        Shining, the first, the last white star,
    93 lines
  • Beethoven In Central Park
    (After a glimpse of a certain monument in New York, during the
    Victory Celebration)
    18 lines
  • Cap'n Storm-Along
    They are buffeting out in the bitter grey weather,
    —Blow the man down, bullies, blow the man down!—
    40 lines
  • Compensations
    Not with a flash that rends the blue
      Shall fall the avenging sword.
    33 lines
  • Cotton-Wool
    Shun the brush and shun the pen,
    Shun the ways of clever men,
    44 lines
  • Daddy Fell into the Pond
    Everyone grumbled.  The sky was grey.
    We had nothing to do and nothing to say.
    19 lines, 24 comments
  • Dead Man's Morrice
    There came a crowder to the Mermaid Inn,
      One dark May night,
    52 lines
  • Dedication : To The Memory Of Cecil Spring-Rice
    STEADFAST as any soldier of the line
    He served his England, with the imminent death
    36 lines
  • Epilogue
    Carol, every violet has
    Heaven for a looking-glass!
    31 lines
  • Fashions
    Fashion on fashion on fashion,
      (With only the truth growing old!)
    53 lines
  • Fishers Of Men
    Long, long ago, He said,
    He who could wake the dead
    28 lines, 1 comment
  • Five Critcisms
    (_On many recent novels by the conventional unconventionalists_.)
    221 lines
  • Haunted In Old Japan
    Music of the star-shine shimmering o’er the sea
    Mirror me no longer in the dusk of memory:
    60 lines
  • Immortal Sails
    Now, in a breath, we’ll burst those gates of gold,
      And ransack heaven before our moment fails.
    19 lines
  • Kilmeny (A Song of the Trawlers)
    Dark, dark, lay the drifters, against the red west,
    As they shot their long meshes of steel overside;
    30 lines
  • Lines For A Sun-Dial
    With shadowy pen I write,
          Till time be done,
    3 lines
  • Memories Of The Pacific Coast
    I know a land, I, too,
      Where warm keen incense on the sea-wind blows,
    23 lines
  • Michael Oaktree
    Under an arch of glorious leaves I passed
    Out of the wood and saw the sickle moon
    230 lines
  • Moving Through The Dew
    Moving through the dew, moving through the dew,
    Ere I waken in the city—Life, thy dawn makes all things new!
    55 lines
  • Name Sakes
    BUT where's the brown drifter that went out alone ?
        -Roll and go, and fare you well-
    25 lines
  • Niobe
    How like the sky she bends above her child,
      One with the great horizon of her pain!
    45 lines
  • Nippon
    Last night, I dreamed of Nippon....
      I saw a cloud of white
    28 lines
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