Alfred Noyes

Alfred Noyes (16 September 1880–25 June 1958) was an English poet, best known for his ballads, "The Highwayman" and "The Barrel-Organ".

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 early inspiration to Noyes. In 1898, he left Aberystwyth for Exeter College, Oxford, where he distinguished himself at rowing, but failed to get his degree because, on a crucial day of his finals in 1902, he was meeting his publisher to arrange publication of his first volume of poems, The Loom of Years (1902).

From 1903 to 1913, Noyes published five additional volumes of poetry, among them The Flower of Old Japan (1903) and Poems (1904), which included one of his most popular poems, "The Barrel-Organ". His most famous poem, "The Highwayman", was first published in the August 1906 issue of Blackwood's Magazine, and included the following year in Forty Singing Seamen and Other Poems. In a nationwide poll conducted by the BBC in 1995 to find Britain's favourite poem, "The Highwayman" was voted the nation's 15th favourite poem.

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Play in Full Screen The Highwayman

1951, role: writer
Play in Full Screen The Lady and the Bandit

1951, role: writer
Play in Full Screen Corregidor

1943, role: actor , character name: Epilogue Narrator
Play in Full Screen Corregidor

1943, role: miscellaneous crew

Famous quotes by Alfred Noyes:

"Wait for me by moonlight,"

"The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas"

"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."

"The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas."

"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."

"St. Luke again associates St. John with St. Peter in the Acts of the Apostles, when, after the Resurrection, that strange boldness had come upon the disciples."

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Famous quotes by Alfred Noyes:

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"The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas"

"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."

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"St. Luke again associates St. John with St. Peter in the Acts of the Apostles, when, after the Resurrection, that strange boldness had come upon the disciples."

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