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1880–1958 England

Alfred Noyes (16 September 1880 – 28 June 1958) was an English poet, short-story writer and playwright.

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Also known as: Noyes, Alfred

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Heart of my heart, the world is young;
Love lies hidden in every rose!

The Golden Hynde and Other Poems (1914)

Carol, every violet has
Heaven for a looking-glass!

The Flower of Old Japan and Other Poems (1907)

Heart of my heart, we are one with the wind,
One with the clouds that are whirled o'er the lea,
One in many, O broken and blind,
One as the waves are at one with the sea!

The Golden Hynde and Other Poems (1914)

One, we are one with the song to-day,
One with the clover that scents the world,
One with the Unknown, far away,
One with the stars, when earth grows old.

The Golden Hynde and Other Poems (1914)

Your dreamers may dream it
The shadow of a dream,
Your sages may deem it
A bubble on the stream;
Yet our kingdom draweth nigher
With each dawn and every day,
Through the earthquake and the fire
"Love will find out the way."

Drake, an English Epic (1908)

Every little glimmering pond
Claims the mighty shores beyond;
Shores no seaman ever hailed,
Seas no ship has ever sailed.

The Flower of Old Japan and Other Poems (1907)

Soundlessly, shadow with shadow, we wrestled together,
Till the grey dawn.

Beauty is a fading flower,
Truth is but a wizard's tower,
Where a solemn death-bell tolls,
And a forest round it rolls.

The Flower of Old Japan and Other Poems (1907)

There’s a magic in the distance, where the sea-line meets the sky.

Poems (1906)

Deep in every heart it lies
With its untranscended skies;
For what heaven should bend above
Hearts that own the heaven of love?

The Flower of Old Japan and Other Poems (1907)

Memory, out of the mist, in a long slow ripple
Breaks, blindly, against the shore.

Songs of Shadow-of-a-leaf and other poems (1924)

"Clear views and certain," Mr. Thomas Hardy once wrote of his own agnosticism. Well, we cannot all have the certainty of agnostics.

The Unknown God (1934)

This is the song of the wind as it came,
Tossing the flags of the Nations to flame.

Apes and ivory, skulls and roses, in junks of old Hong-Kong,
Gliding over a sea of dreams to a haunted shore of song.

Never since Drake and Raleigh won
Our freedom of the seas,
Have sons of Britain dared and done
More valiantly than these.

All the shores when day is done
Fade into the setting sun,
So the story tries to teach
More than can be told in speech.

The Flower of Old Japan and Other Poems (1907)

The shore that has no shore beyond.

The Flower of Old Japan and Other Poems (1907)

Enough of dreams! No longer mock
The burdened hearts of men!
Not on the cloud, but on the rock
Build thou thy faith again; O range no more the realms of air,
Stoop to the glen-bound streams;
Thy hope was all too like despair:
Enough, enough of dreams.

Your God still walks in Eden, between the ancient trees,
Where Youth and Love go wading through pools of primroses.
And this is the sign we bring you, before the darkness fall,
That Spring is risen, is risen again,
That Life is risen, is risen again,
That Love is risen, is risen again, and Love is Lord of all.

The Lord of Misrule and Other Poems (1915)

A shadow leaned over me, whispering, in the darkness,
Thoughts without sound;
Sorrowful thoughts that filled me with helpless wonder
And held me bound.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alfred Noyes (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.