Alfred Noyes Short Quotes

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

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My periwig's askew, my ruffle stained With grease from my new telescope!

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Soundlessly, shadow with shadow, we wrestled together,
Till the grey dawn.

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

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This universe exists, and by that one impossible fact Declares itself a miracle.

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Memory, out of the mist, in a long slow ripple
Breaks, blindly, against the shore.

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Once more I hear the everlasting sea
Breathing beneath the mountain's fragrant breast

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

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

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At first, we bask contented in our sun And take what daylight shows us for the truth. Then we discover...

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Could new stars be born? Night after night he watched that miracle Growing and changing colour as it grew.

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

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There was music all about us, we were growing quite forgetful
We were only singing seamen from the dirt of Londontown.

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Go down to Kew in lilac time (it isn't far from London!) And you shall wander hand in hand with love in summer's wonderland.

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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.

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Never since Drake and Raleigh won
Our freedom of the seas,
Have sons of Britain dared and done
More valiantly than these.

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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....

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A shadow leaned over me, whispering, in the darkness,
Thoughts without sound;
Sorrowful thoughts that filled me with helpless wonder
And held me bound.

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And all those glimmerings where the abyss of space Is powdered with a milky dust, each grain A burning sun, and every sun the lord Of its own darkling planets.

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They wouldn't mourn for Peterkin, merry little Peterkin.
Put away your muskets, lay aside the drum,
Hang it by the wooden sword we made for little Peterkin!

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We plucked down all His altars, left not one
Save where, perchance (and ah, the joy was fleet),
We laid our garlands in the sun
At the white Sea-born's feet.

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"He is dead," we cried, and even amid that gloom
The wintry veil was rent! The new-born day
Showed us the Angel seated in the tomb
And the stone rolled away.

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Come and look for Peterkin, poor little Peterkin.
No one would believe us if we told them what we know,
Or they wouldn't grieve for Peterkin, merry little Peterkin...

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