Collected Poems (Noyes)/Volume 1

Collected Poems

Volume I.

Portrait photograph of Alfred Noyes.
Alfred Noyes's signature

Collected Poems

By
Alfred Noyes

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Volume One

New York
Frederick A. Stokes Company
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Copyright, 1913, by
Frederick A. Stokes Company


Copyright, 1906, 1907, 1908, by
The Macmillan Company

Copyright, 1909, 1910, 1911, by
Frederick A. Stokes Company.

Copyright, 1906, 1909, by
Alfred Noyes

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Contents
Page
The Loom of Years 1
In the Heart of the Woods 2
Art 5
Triolet 8
A Triple Ballad of Old Japan 8
The Symbolist 10
Haunted in Old Japan 11
Necromancy 12
The Mystic 15
The Flower of Old Japan 17
Apes and Ivory 48
A Song of Sherwood 49
The World's May-Queen 50
Pirates 53
A Song of England 55
The Old Sceptic 57
The Death of Chopin 59
Song 62
Butterflies 62
Song of the Wooden-Legged Fiddler 66
The Fisher-Girl 67
A Song of Two Burdens 71
Earth-Bound 72
Art, The Herald 74
The Optimist 74
A Post-Impression 76
The Barrel-Organ 80
The Litany of War 85
The Last Battle 88
The Paradox 89
The Progress of Love 94
The Forest of Wild Thyme 123
Forty Singing Seamen 171
The Empire Builders 175
Nelson's Year 177
In Time of War 180
Ode for the Seventieth Birthday of Swinburne 186
In Cloak of Grey 188
A Ride for the Queen 189
Song 191
The Highwayman 192
The Haunted Palace 196
The Sculptor 200
Summer 201
At Dawn 204
The Swimmer's Race 206
The Venus of Milo 208
The Net of Vulcan 209
Niobe 209
Orpheus and Eurydice 211
From the Shore 220
The Return 222
Remembrance 223
A Prayer 224
Love's Ghost 224
On a Railway Platform 225
Oxford Revisited 226
The Three Ships 228
Slumber-Songs of the Madonna 230
Enceladus 235
In the Cool of the Evening 241
A Roundhead's Rallying Song 242
Vicisti, Galilæe 245
Drake 246