Alfred Noyes Quotes

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

  Alfred Noyes

  Distance, Sea, Sky

  Alfred Noyes (1928). “Ballads and Poems”, Blackwood, W

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

  Alfred Noyes

  Life, Lying, Heart

  Alfred Noyes (1911). “Drake. The enchanted island. New poems”

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• Oh, grown-ups cannot understand, And grown-ups never will, How short the way to fairyland Across the purple hill.

  Alfred Noyes

  Purple, Way, Hills

  Alfred Noyes (2008). “The Flower of Old Japan”, p.81, Wildside Press LLC

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• Happy, happy, happy for all that God hath done, Glad of all the little leaves dancing in the sun.

  Alfred Noyes

  Dancing, Done, Littles

  Alfred Noyes (1911). “Drake. The enchanted island. New poems”

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

  Alfred Noyes

  Flower, Towers, Tolls

  Alfred Noyes (2008). “The Flower of Old Japan”, p.60, Wildside Press LLC

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• 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!
  Ay! when life seems scattered apart,
  Darkens, ends as a tale that is told,
  One, we are one, O heart of my heart,
  One, still one, while the world grows old.

  Alfred Noyes

  Life, Heart, Clouds

  Alfred Noyes (2008). “The Golden Hynde”, p.144, Wildside Press LLC

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• 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.

  Alfred Noyes

  Life, Dream, Fire

  Alfred Noyes (1920). “Collected Poems”

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• 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.

  Alfred Noyes

  Dream, Heart, Men

  "The Secret Inn: 'The Kingdom is Within You'". Master Mind Magazine, Volume VII, No. 3, p. 99, December 1914.

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• Heart of my heart, the world is young;
  Love lies hidden in every rose!
  Every song that the skylark sung
  Once, we thought, must come to a close:
  Now we know the spirit of song,
  Song that is merged in the chant of the whole,
  Hand in hand as we wander along,
  What should we doubt of the years that roll?

  Alfred Noyes

  Life, Song, Lying

  Alfred Noyes (1911). “Drake. The enchanted island. New poems”

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• The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, 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

  Moon, Doors, Wind

  "The Highwayman" l. 3 (1907)

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• This outer world is but the pictured scroll Of worlds within the soul; A colored chart, a blazoned missal-book, Whereon who rightly look May spell the splendors with their mortal eyes, And steer to Paradise.

  Alfred Noyes

  Book, Eye, Soul

  Alfred Noyes (1910). “The Enchanted Island: And Other Poems”

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• Outlawed, but not alone, for Love Is outlawed, too. You cannot banish us, proud world: We banish you.

  Alfred Noyes

  Love Is, World, Proud

  Alfred Noyes (1928). “Ballads and Poems”, Blackwood, W

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• 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.

  Alfred Noyes

  Life, Spring, Fall

  Alfred Noyes (2016). “The Lord of Misrule”, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

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• Of the sayings of Christ in the Synoptic Gospels that can be compared to those in the fourth Gospel, there are one or two which I venture to think can only have been recorded on the authority of St. John.

  Alfred Noyes

  Thinking, Two, Venture

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• I'll come to thee by moonlight,
  though hell should bar the way.

  Alfred Noyes

  Bars, Way, Hell

  "The Highwayman" l. 29 (1907)

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• If ever I had any doubts about the fundamental realities of religion, they could always be dispelled by one memory- the light upon my father's face as he came back from early communion.

  Alfred Noyes

  Memories, Father, Reality

  Alfred Noyes (1953). “Two worlds for memory”

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• We have come by curious ways
  To the Light that holds the days;
  We have sought in haunts of fear
  For that all-enfolding sphere:
  And lo! it was not far, but near.
  We have found, O foolish-fond,
  The shore that has no shore beyond.
  Deep in every heart it lies
  With its untranscended skies;
  For what heaven should bend above
  Hearts that own the heaven of love?

  Alfred Noyes

  Life, Lying, Heart

  Alfred Noyes (2008). “The Flower of Old Japan”, p.60, Wildside Press LLC

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• The story of scientific discovery has its own epic unity-a unity of purpose and endeavour-the single torch passing from hand to hand through the centuries; and the great moments of science when, after long labour, the pioneers saw their accumulated facts falling into a significant order-sometimes in the form of a law that revolutionised the whole world of thought-have an intense human interest, and belong essentially to the creative imagination of poetry.

  Alfred Noyes

  Fall, Science, Epic

  Alfred Noyes (1926). “Watchers of the Sky”, p.2, Library of Alexandria

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• At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God.

  Alfred Noyes

  Distance, Men, Order

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• Luke associates John with Peter in Acts, when, after the Resurrection, that strange boldness had come upon the disciples.

  Alfred Noyes

  Easter, Strange, Resurrection

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• Only in souls the Christ is brought to birth,
  And there He lives and dies.

  Alfred Noyes

  Christmas, Soul, Birth

  Alfred Noyes (1920). “Collected Poems”

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• Bring the buds of the hazel-copse, Where two lovers kissed at noon; Bring the crushed red wild-thyme tops Where they murmured under the moon.

  Alfred Noyes

  Moon, Two, Thyme

  Alfred Noyes (1920). “Collected Poems”

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