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"Go down to Kew in lilac-time, in lilac-time, in lilac-time;
Go down to Kew in lilac-time (it isn't far from London!)"
Alfred Noyes (1880-1958), British poet. The Barrel-Organ (l. 33-34). . .
Family Book of Verse, The. Lewis Gannett, ed. (1961) Harper & Row. |
"The linnet and the throstle, too, and after dark the long halloo
And golden-eyed tu-whit, tu-whooof owls that ogle London."
Alfred Noyes (1880-1958), British poet. The Barrel-Organ (l. 47-48). . .
Family Book of Verse, The. Lewis Gannett, ed. (1961) Harper & Row. |
"Once more La Traviata sighs
Another sadder song:
Once more Il Trovatore cries
A tale of deeper wrong;"
Alfred Noyes (1880-1958), British poet. The Barrel-Organ (l. 153-156). . .
Family Book of Verse, The. Lewis Gannett, ed. (1961) Harper & Row. |
"she cannot understand
What she wants or why she wanders to that undiscovered land,
For the parties there are not at all the sort of thing she planned,
In the land where the dead dreams go."
Alfred Noyes (1880-1958), British poet. The Barrel-Organ (l. 84-87). . .
Family Book of Verse, The. Lewis Gannett, ed. (1961) Harper & Row. |
"Yes; as the music changes,
Like a prismatic glass,
It takes the light and ranges
Through all the moods that pass;"
Alfred Noyes (1880-1958), British poet. The Barrel-Organ (l. 17-20). . .
Family Book of Verse, The. Lewis Gannett, ed. (1961) Harper & Row. |
"When they shot him down in the highway,
Down like a dog in the highway,
And he lay in his blood on the highway, with the bunch of lace at
his throat."
Alfred Noyes (1880-1958), British poet. The Highwayman (l. 105-108). . .
Oxford Book of Narrative Verse, The. Iona Opie and Peter Opie, eds. (1983) Oxford University Press. |
"The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,
And the highwayman came riding—
Riding—riding—
The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door."
Alfred Noyes (1880-1958), British poet. The Highwayman (l. 3-6). . .
Oxford Book of Narrative Verse, The. Iona Opie and Peter Opie, eds. (1983) Oxford University Press. |
"The look for me moonlight.
Watch for me by moonlight,
And he lay in his blood on the highway, with the bunch of lace at his throat."
Alfred Noyes (1880-1958), British poet. The Highwayman (l. 29-31). . .
Oxford Book of Narrative Verse, The. Iona Opie and Peter Opie, eds. (1983) Oxford University Press. |
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