Alfred Noyes CBE (16 September 1880 – 25 June 1958) was an English poet, best known for his ballads, "The Highwayman" and "The Barrel-Organ".
Read more about Alfred Noyes: Early Years, First Marriage and America, War, Middle Years, Second Marriage and Catholicism, The Torch-Bearers, The Last Man, Later Years, The Accusing Ghost, Death
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“Flash’d from his bed the electric tidings came,
He is no better, he is much the same.”
—Anonymous.
Parody of the style of poet laureate Alfred Austin (1835-1913)
“The look for me moonlight.
Watch for me by moonlight,
And he lay in his blood on the highway, with the bunch of lace at his throat.”
—Alfred Noyes (1880–1958)