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 [Pg v] [Pg v] 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 [Pg vi]Unity 92 The Hill-Flower 93 Actæon 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 Shoe322 V The Companion of a Mile 340 VI Big Ben351 VII The Burial of a Queen 361 VIII Flos Mercatorum386 IX Raleigh411 A Watchword of the Fleet 434
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