Who is Alfred Noyes
Alfred Noyes CBE (16 September 1880 – 25 June 1958) was an English poet, short-story writer and playwright.Contents Early years Noyes was born in Wolverhampton, England the son of Alfred and Amelia Adams Noyes. When he was four, the family moved to Aberystwyth, Wales, where his father taught Latin and Greek. The Welsh coast and mountains were an inspiration to Noyes.
Early Career In 1898, he left Aberystwyth for Exeter College, Oxford, where he distinguished himself at rowing, but failed to get his degree because he was meeting his publisher to arrange publication of his first volume...
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Alfred Noyes Poems
- William Herschel Conducts
Was it a dream?--that crowded concert-room
In Bath; that sea of ruffles and laced coats;
And William Herschel, in his powdered wig,
Waiting upon the platform, to conduct ... - Galileo
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(Celeste, in the Convent at Arcetri, writes to her old lover at Rome.) ... - Sir John Herschel Remembers
True type of all, from his own father's hand
He caught the fire; and, though he carried it far
Into new regions; and, from southern fields
Of yellow lupin, added host on host ... - Tycho Brake
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They thought him a magician, Tycho Brahe, ... - Five Criticisms - Ii
(On a certain goddess, acclaimed as "new" but known in Babylon.)
I saw the assembled artists of our day
Waiting for light, for music and for song. ...
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Comments about Alfred Noyes
- Poem2poem: the wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, / the moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, - alfred noyes
- Cutiechinny: “the universe is centered on neither the earth nor the sun. it is centered on god.” ~ alfred noyes ask kycine live
- Poem2poem: the wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, / the moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, - alfred noyes
- Its_kanika_: the universe is centered on neither the earth nor the sun. it is centered on god. – alfred noyes
- Poem2poem: the wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, / the moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, - alfred noyes
