Alfred Noyes quotes

" A shadow leaned over me, whispering, in the darkness, Thoughts without sound " # Adversity # Death and Dying # Writers and Writing

" Soundlessly, shadow with shadow, we wrestled together, Till the grey dawn. " # Sports # Death and Dying # Perseverance

" Memory, out of the mist, in a long slow ripple Breaks, blindly, against the shore. " # Memory # Death and Dying # Truth

" Never since Drake and Raleigh won Our freedom of the seas, Have sons of Britain dared and done More valiantly than these. " # Risk # Freedom # Cities and City Life

" Yes; as the music changes, Like a prismatic glass, It takes the light and ranges Through all the moods that pass; Dissects the common carnival Of passions and regrets, And gives the world a glimpse of all The colours it forgets. " # Love # Music # Friends and Friendship

" 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!) And you shall wander hand in hand with love in summer's wonderland; Go down to Kew in lilac-time (it isn't far from London!) " # Books - Reading # Love # Cities and City Life

" The wind was a torrent of darkness upon the gusty trees, The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, The road was a ribbon of moonlight looping the purple moor, And the highwayman came riding-- Riding--riding-- The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn door. " # Virtue # Love # Moon

" Once more I hear the everlasting sea Breathing beneath the mountain's fragrant breast " # Babies # Sea # Love

" We plucked down all His altars, left not one Save where, perchance (and ah, the joy was fleet), We laid our garlands in the sun At the white Sea-born's feet. " # Books - Reading # Death and Dying # Love

" "He is dead," we cried, and even amid that gloom The wintry veil was rent! The new-born day Showed us the Angel seated in the tomb And the stone rolled away. " # Death and Dying # Love # Angels