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COLLECTED POEMS

BY

ALFRED NOYES


VOLUME TWO

NEW YORK
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

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

_All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign
languages, including the Scandinavian. All dramatic and acting rights,
both professional and amateur, are reserved. Application for the right
of performing should be made to the publishers._

_October, 1913_




CONTENTS


                                                PAGE

MIST IN THE VALLEY                                 1

A SONG OF THE PLOUGH                               4

THE BANNER                                         6

RANK AND FILE                                      6

THE SKY-LARK CAGED                                11

THE LOVERS' FLIGHT                                13

THE ROCK POOL                                     16

THE ISLAND HAWK                                   20

THE ADMIRAL'S GHOST                               26

EDINBURGH                                         29

IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE                             30

AN EAST-END COFFEE-STALL                          32

RED OF THE DAWN                                   33

THE DREAM-CHILD'S INVITATION                      35

THE TRAMP TRANSFIGURED                            37

ON THE DOWNS                                      50

A MAY-DAY CAROL                                   52

THE CALL OF THE SPRING                            53

A DEVONSHIRE DITTY                                55

BACCHUS AND THE PIRATES                           56

THE NEWSPAPER BOY                                 64

THE TWO WORLDS                                    66

GORSE                                             68

FOR THE EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY OF GEORGE MEREDITH     69

IN MEMORY OF SWINBURNE                            70

ON THE DEATH OF FRANCIS THOMPSON                  72

IN MEMORY OF MEREDITH                             74

THE TESTIMONY OF ART                              76

THE SCHOLARS                                      76

RESURRECTION                                      77

A JAPANESE LOVE-SONG                              78

THE TWO PAINTERS                                  79

THE ENCHANTED ISLAND                              88

UNITY                                             92

THE HILL-FLOWER                                   93

ACTAEON                                            95

LUCIFER'S FEAST                                  101

VETERANS                                         107

THE QUEST RENEWED                                108

THE LIGHTS OF HOME                               109

'TWEEN THE LIGHTS                                110

CREATION                                         113

THE PEACEMAKER                                   115

THE SAILOR-KING                                  117

THE FIDDLER'S FAREWELL                           118

TO A PESSIMIST                                   119

MOUNT IDA                                        120

THE ELECTRIC TRAM                                127

SHERWOOD                                         128

TALES OF THE MERMAID TAVERN

  I A KNIGHT OF THE OCEAN-SEA                    274

  II A COINER OF ANGELS                          285

  III BLACK BILL'S HONEY-MOON                    303

  IV THE SIGN OF THE GOLDEN SHOE                 322

  V THE COMPANION OF A MILE                      340

  VI BIG BEN                                     351

  VII THE BURIAL OF A QUEEN                      361

  VIII FLOS MERCATORUM                           386

  IX RALEIGH                                     411

A WATCHWORD OF THE FLEET                         434

NEW WARS FOR OLD                                 435

THE PRAYER FOR PEACE                             436

THE SWORD OF ENGLAND                             438

THE DAWN OF PEACE                                438

THE BRINGERS OF GOOD NEWS                        440

THE LONELY SHRINE                                442

TO A FRIEND OF BOYHOOD LOST AT SEA               443

OUR LADY OF THE TWILIGHT                         444

THE HILL-FLOWERS                                 445

THE CAROL OF THE FIR-TREE                        447

LAVENDER                                         450




COLLECTED POEMS

THE ENCHANTED ISLAND AND OTHER POEMS




MIST IN THE VALLEY


    I

    Mist in the valley, weeping mist
      Beset my homeward way.
    No gleam of rose or amethyst
      Hallowed the parting day;
    A shroud, a shroud of awful grey
      Wrapped every woodland brow,
    And drooped in crumbling disarray
      Around each win