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Alfred Noyes
1880 - 1958
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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.") / As along a dark pine-bough, in slender white mystery / The moon lay to listen, above the thick fern,
An Open Boat
O what is that whimpering there in the darkness? / / See--quick--by that flash, where the bitter foam tosses,
Beethoven In Central Park
(After a glimpse of a certain monument in New York, during the Victory Celebration) / The thousand-windowed towers were all alight. / Throngs of all nations filled that glittering way;
Cap'n Storm-Along
They are buffeting out in the bitter grey weather, / / singing to ,
Copernicus
The neighbours gossiped idly at the door. / Copernicus lay dying overhead. / His little throng of friends, with startled eyes,
Cotton-Wool
Shun the brush and shun the pen, / Shun the ways of clever men, / When they prove that black is white,
Dead Man's Morrice
There came a crowder to the Mermaid Inn, / One dark May night, / Fiddling a tune that quelled our motley din,
Dedication. To The Memory Of Sir Cecil Spring-Rice
I. / Steadfast as any soldier of the line / He served his England, with the imminent death
Fashions
Fashion on fashion on fashion, / (With only the truth growing old!) / And here's the new purple of passion,
Fishers Of Men
Long, long ago He said, / He who could wake the dead, / And walk upon the sea--
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