E-text prepared by Charles Aldarondo, Josephine Paolucci, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) COLLECTED POEMS BY ALFRED NOYES VOLUME ONE 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 [Pg v] [Pg v] 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 Origin of Life 86 The Last Battle 88 [Pg vi]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
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