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Title: The New Morning
Poems
Author: Alfred Noyes
Release Date: April 11, 2007 [eBook #21029]
Language: English
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THE NEW MORNING
ALFRED NOYES

WORKS OF ALFRED NOYES
COLLECTED POEMS--_2 Vols._?THE LORD OF MISRULE?A BELGIAN CHRISTMAS EVE?THE WINE-PRESS?WALKING SHADOWS--_Prose_?TALES OF THE MERMAID TAVERN?SHERWOOD?THE ENCHANTED ISLAND AND OTHER POEMS?DRAKE: AN ENGLISH EPIC?POEMS?THE FLOWER OF OLD JAPAN?THE GOLDEN HYNDE?THE NEW MORNING

THE NEW MORNING
Poems
by
ALFRED NOYES
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New York?Frederick A. Stokes Company?Publishers
Copyright, 1918, by?Alfred Noyes?Copyright, 1919, by?Frederick A. Stokes Company?All rights reserved, including that of translation?into foreign languages
DEDICATION
TO THE MEMORY OF SIR CECIL?SPRING-RICE
I.
Steadfast as any soldier of the line?He served his England, with the imminent death?Poised at his heart. Nor could the world divine?The constant peril of each burdened breath.
England, and the honour of England, he still served?Walking the strict path, with the old high pride?Of those invincible knights who never swerved?One hair's breadth from the way until they died.
Quietness he loved, and books, and the grave beauty?Of England's Helicon, whose eternal light?Shines like a lantern on that road of duty,?Discerned by few in this chaotic night.
And his own pen, foretelling his release,?Told us that he foreknew "the end was peace."
II.
Soldier of England, he shall live unsleeping?Among his friends, with the old proud flag above;?For even today her honour is in his keeping.?He has joined the hosts that guard her with their love.
They shine like stars, unnumbered happy legions,?In that high realm where all our darkness dies.?He moves, with honour, in those loftier regions,?Above this "world of passion and of lies":
For so he called it, keeping his own pure passion?A silent flame before the true and good;?Not fawning on the throng in this world's fashion?To come and see what all might see who would.
Soldier of England, brave and gentle knight,?The soul of Sidney welcomes you tonight.
CONTENTS
PAGE
DEDICATION: TO THE MEMORY OF SIR CECIL?SPRING-RICE v
"THE AVENUE OF THE ALLIES" 3
ON THE WESTERN FRONT 8
VICTORY 10
AMERICAN POEMS, 1912-1917
REPUBLIC AND MOTHERLAND 19
THE UNION 22
GHOSTS OF THE NEW WORLD 24
THE OLD MEETING HOUSE 27
PRINCETON 30
BEETHOVEN IN CENTRAL PARK 34
SONGS OF THE TRAWLERS AND SEA POEMS
THE PEOPLE'S FLEET 37
KILMENY 38
CAP'N STORM-ALONG 40
THE BIG BLACK TRAWLER 42
NAMESAKES 44
WIRELESS 46
FISHERS OF MEN 48
AN OPEN BOAT 50
PEACE IN A PALACE 52
THE VINDICTIVE 55
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS
THE CHIMNEY-SWEEPS OF CHELTENHAM 61
TO A SUCCESSFUL MAN 66
THE OLD GENTLEMAN WITH THE AMBER SNUFFBOX 68
WHAT GRANDFATHER SAID 71
MEMORIES OF THE PACIFIC COAST 75
NIPPON 77
THE HUMMING BIRDS 79
LINES FOR A SUN-DIAL 81
THE REALMS OF GOLD 82
COMPENSATIONS 85
DEAD MAN'S MORRICE 87
THE OLD FOOL IN THE WOOD 90
A NEW MADRIGAL TO AN OLD MELODY 91
THE LOST BATTLE 94
RIDDLES OF MERLIN 96
THE SYMPHONY 98
PEACE 99
THE OPEN DOOR 100
IMMORTAL SAILS 102
THE MATIN-SONG OF FRIAR TUCK 103
FIVE CRITICISMS 105
THE COMPANIONS 114
THE LITTLE ROADS 116
SUNLIGHT AND SEA 118
THE ROAD THROUGH CHAOS 121
THE NIGHT OF THE LION 123
THE WAR WIDOW 126
THE BELL 128
SLAVE AND EMPEROR 132
ON A MOUNTAIN-TOP 134
EARLY POEMS
THE PHANTOM FLEET 139
MICHAEL OAKTREE 147
TOUCHSTONE ON A BUS
TOUCHSTONE ON A BUS 159
I THE NEW DUCKLING 160
II THE MAN WHO DISCOVERED THE USE A CHAIR 161
III COTTON-WOOL 164
IV FASHIONS 166
EPILOGUE
THE REWARD OF SONG 171
THE NEW MORNING
"THE AVENUE OF THE ALLIES"
This is the song of the wind as it came?Tossing the flags of the nations to flame:
_I am the breath of God. I am His laughter.?I am His Liberty. That is my name._
So it descended, at night, on the city.?So it went lavishing beauty and pity,?Lighting the lordliest street of the world?With half of the banners that earth has unfurled;?Over the lamps that are brighter than stars.?Laughing aloud on its way to the wars,?Proud as America, sweeping along?Death and destruction like notes in a song,?Leaping to battle as man to his mate,?Joyous as God when he moved to create,--
Never was voice of a nation so glorious,?Glad of its cause and afire with its fate!?Never did eagle on mightier pinion?Tower to the height of a brighter dominion,?Kindling the hope of the prophets to flame,?Calling aloud on the deep as it came,
_Cleave me a way for an army with banners.?I am His Liberty. That is my name._
Know you the meaning of all they are doing??Know you the light that their soul is pursuing??Know you the might of the world they are making,?This nation of nations whose heart is awaking??What is this mingling of peoples and races??Look at the wonder and joy in their faces!?Look how the folds of the union are spreading!?Look, for the nations are come to their wedding.?How shall the