The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, The road was a ribbon of moonlight, over the purple moor, And the highwayman came riding-- Riding--riding-- The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.

Alfred Noyes

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

purple hills way

Heart of my heart, the world is young; by Alfred Noyes

Heart of my heart, the world is young;

heart life lying

There’s a magic in the distance, where the sea-line meets the sky... by Alfred Noyes

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

distance sea sky

Happy, happy, happy for all that God hath done, Glad of all the l... by Alfred Noyes

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

dancing done littles

Beauty is a fading flower,Truth is but a wizard's tower,Where a solemn death-bell tolls,And a forest round it rolls.

tolls towers flower

Heart of my heart, we are one with the wind, by Alfred Noyes

Heart of my heart, we are one with the wind,

clouds heart life

Your dreamers may dream it by Alfred Noyes

Your dreamers may dream it

fire dream life

This outer world is but the pictured scroll Of worlds within the soul; A colored chart, a blazoned missal-book, Whereon who rightly look May spell the splendors with their mortal eyes, And steer to Paradise.

eye soul book

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

proud love-is world

Enough of dreams! No longer mock by Alfred Noyes

Enough of dreams! No longer mock

dream heart men

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.

venture two thinking

Your God still walks in Eden, between the ancient trees, by Alfred Noyes

Your God still walks in Eden, between the ancient trees,

spring life fall

I'll come to thee by moonlight, by Alfred Noyes

I'll come to thee by moonlight,

hell bars way

If ever I had any doubts about the fundamental realities of religion, they could always be dispelled by one memory- the light upon my father's face as he came back from early communion.

memories father reality

The story of scientific discovery has its own epic unity-a unity of purpose and endeavour-the single torch passing from hand to hand through the centuries; and the great moments of science when, after long labour, the pioneers saw their accumulated facts falling into a significant order-sometimes in the form of a law that revolutionised the whole world of thought-have an intense human interest, and belong essentially to the creative imagination of poetry.

epic science fall

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.

distance men order

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

resurrection strange easter

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.

thyme moon two

We have come by curious ways by Alfred Noyes

We have come by curious ways

heart life lying

Only in souls the Christ is brought to birth, by Alfred Noyes

Only in souls the Christ is brought to birth,

birth christmas soul