Alfred Noyes

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Alfred Noyes CBE
Portrait of Alfred Noyes, by Alexader Bassano, 1922
Born	(1880-09-16)16 September 1880 Wolverhampton,England
Died	25 June 1958(1958-06-25)(aged 77) Isle of Wight,England
Resting place	Totland
Occupation	Poet
Alma mater	Exeter College, Oxford
Period	1902–1958
Subject	English
Notable works	"The Highwayman" "The Barrel-Organ"
Notable awards	D.Litt.,Yale University,1913 CBE,1918
Spouse	Garnett Daniels (1907–1926) Mary Angela Mayne (1927–1958)
Children	Hugh Veronica Margaret
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Alfred NoyesCBE(16 September 1880 – 25 June 1958)was an English poet, short-story writer and playwright.

Early years

Noyes was born inWolverhampton,England the son of Alfred and Amelia Adams Noyes. When he was four, the family moved toAberystwyth,Wales, where his father taught Latin and Greek.The Welsh coast and mountains were an inspiration to Noyes.

Early career

In 1898, he left Aberystwyth forExeter College, Oxford,where he distinguished himself at rowing, but failed to get his degree because he was meeting his publisher to arrange publication of his first volume of poems,The Loom of Years(1902), on a crucial day of hisfinalsin 1903.

The Barrel-OrganandThe Highwayman

Noyes published five more volumes of poetry from 1903 to 1913, among themThe Flower of Old Japan(1903) andPoems(1904).Poemsincluded "The Barrel-Organ"."The Highwayman"was first published in the August 1906 issue ofBlackwood's Magazine,and included the following year inForty Singing Seamen and Other Poems.In a nationwide poll conducted by theBBCin 1995 to find Britain's favourite poem, "The Highwayman" was voted the nation's 15th favourite poem.

Drake

Another major work in this phase of his career wasDrake,a 200-page epic inblank verseabout the Elizabethan naval commander SirFrancis Drake,which was published in two volumes (1906 and 1908). The poem shows the clear influence of Romantic poets such as Tennyson and Wordsworth, both in style and subject.

Sherwood

Noyes' only full-length play,Sherwood,was published in 1911; it was reissued in 1926, with alterations, asRobin Hood.One of his most popular poems, "A Song of Sherwood",also dates from 1911. Eventually, one of the more popular ballads dating from this period, "Bacchus and the Pirates", was set to music for two voices and piano by Michael Brough, and first performed at theSwaledale Festivalin 2012.

First marriage and America

In 1907, Noyes married Garnett Daniels, youngest daughter of US Army Colonel Byron G. Daniels, aCivil Warveteran who was for some years U.S. Consul atHull.Noyes first visited America in February 1913, partly to lecture onworld peaceanddisarmamentand partly to satisfy his wife's desire that he should gather fresh experiences in her homeland. His first lecture tour lasted six weeks, extending as far west as Chicago. It proved so successful that he decided to make a second trip to the US in October and to stay six months. In this trip, he visited the principal American universities, includingPrinceton,where the impression he made on the faculty and undergraduates was so favourable that in February 1914 he was asked to join the staff as a visiting professor, lecturing on modern English literature from February to June. He accepted,and for the next nine years he and his wife divided their year between England and the US. At Princeton, Noyes' students includedF. Scott Fitzgerald,Edmund WilsonandJohn Peale Bishop.He resigned his professorship in 1923, but continued to travel and lecture throughout the United States for the rest of his life. His wife died in 1926 atSaint-Jean-de-Luz,France, where she and Noyes were staying with friends.

War

Portrait of Alfred Noyes, inThe World's Work,1913

Noyes is often portrayed by hostile critics as amilitaristandjingoist.Actually, he was apacifistwho hated war and lectured against it, but felt that, when threatened by an aggressive and unreasoning enemy, a nation could not but fight. On this principle, he opposed theBoer War,but supported the Allies in both theWorld Wars.In 1913, when it seemed that war might yet be avoided, he published a long anti-war poem calledThe Wine Press.One American reviewer wrote that Noyes was "inspired by a fervent hatred of war and all that war means", and had used "all the resources of his varied art" to depict its "ultimate horror".The poet and critic Helen Bullis found Noyes' "anti-militarist" poem "remarkable", "passionate and inspiring", but, in its "unsparing realism", lacking in "the large vision, which sees the ultimate truth rather than the immediate details". In her view, Noyes failed to address the "vital questions" raised, for example, byWilliam James' observation that for modern man, "War is thestronglife; it is lifein extremis",or byShakespeare's invocation inThe Two Noble Kinsmenof war as the "great corrector" that heals and cures "sick" times.Bullis, aFreudian(unlike Noyes, for whompsychoanalysiswas apseudo-science),thought war had deeper roots than Noyes acknowledged. She saw looming "the great figures of theFatesback of the conflict, while Mr Noyes sees only the 'five men in black tail-coats' whose cold statecraft is responsible for it ".In 1915,Upton Sinclairincluded some striking passages fromThe Wine Pressin his anthology of the literature of social protest,The Cry for Justice.

During World War I, Noyes was debarred by defective eyesight from serving at the front.Instead, from 1916, he did his military service on attachment to theForeign Office,where he worked withJohn Buchanon propaganda.He also did his patriotic chore as a literary figure, writing morale-boosting short stories and exhortatory odes and lyrics recalling England's military past and asserting the morality of her cause.These works are now forgotten, apart from two ghost stories, "TheLusitaniaWaits "and" The Log of theEvening Star",which are still occasionally reprinted in collections of tales of the uncanny." TheLusitaniaWaits "is a ghost revenge story based on the sinking of theLusitaniaby a German submarine in 1915 – although the tale hinges on an erroneous claim that the submarine crew had been awarded theGoetz medalfor sinking the ship.

He aided pacifist causes financially, by conrtibuting the whimsical poemA Spell for a FairytoPrincess Mary's Gift Book(ca 1915). The illustrations for this, by C.H.Shepperson, formed the templates for theCottingley Fairies,controversially accepted, for instance byArthur Conan Doyleas genuine evidence for psychic phenomena.

During World War II, Noyes wrote the same kind of patriotic poems, but he also wrote a much longer and more considered work,If Judgement Comes,in whichHitlerstands accused before the tribunal of history. It was first published separately (1941) and then in the collection,Shadows on the Down and Other Poems(1945). The only fiction Noyes published in World War II wasThe Last Man(1940), a science fiction novel whose message could hardly be more anti-war. In the first chapter, a global conflict wipes out almost the entire human race.

Noyes' best-known anti-war poem, "The Victory Ball" (aka "A Victory Dance" ),was first published inThe Saturday Evening Postin 1920. He wrote it after attending a ball held in London soon after theArmistice,where he found himself wondering what the ghosts of the soldiers who had died in the war would say if they could observe the thoughtless frivolity of the dancers. The message of the poem lies in the line, "Under the dancing feet are the graves." A brief passage about a girl "fresh from school" who "begs for a dose of the best cocaine" was replaced by something innocuous in thePostversion, but reinstated when the poem appeared in a collection of Noyes' verse. "The Victory Ball" was turned into asymphonic poembyErnest Schellingand into a ballet by Benjamin Zemach.In 1966, at the height of theVietnam War,CongressmanH. R. Gross,indignant at aWhite Housedinner dance that went on until 3 a.m. while American soldiers were giving their lives, inserted Noyes' poem in theCongressional Recordas bearing "directly on the subject matter in hand".

Middle years

In 1918, Noyes' short story collection,Walking Shadows: Sea Tales and Others,came out. It included both "TheLusitaniaWaits "and" The Log of theEvening Star".In 1924 Noyes published another collection,The Hidden Player,which included a novella,Beyond the Desert: A Tale of Death Valley,already published separately in America in 1920.

For thePageant of Empireat the 1924British Empire Exhibition,Noyes wrote a series of poems set to music by SirEdward Elgarand known asPageant of Empire.Among these poems wasShakespeare's Kingdom.

In 1929, Noyes published the first of his three novels,The Return of the Scare-Crow(US title:The Sun Cure). A light-hearted story combining adventure, satire and comedy, it is about an earnest young clergyman named Basil. During a walk on the South Downs, Basil comes across a ruined cottage, where he decides to try sunbathing naked, as recommended by a friend. His clothes vanish, and he has to battle his way back to them through a series of mental hazards – all the latest intellectual fads and follies – and ends up rather less naïve than before.

Second marriage and Catholicism

In 1927, the year after his first wife's death, Noyes married Mary AngelanéeMayne (1889–1976), widow of Lieutenant Richard Shireburn Weld-Blundell, a member of the oldrecusant CatholicWeld-Blundell family,who had been killed in World War I.Later that year, Noyes himself converted toCatholicism.He gives an account of his conversion in his autobiography,Two Worlds for Memory(1953), but sets forth the more intellectual steps by which he was led from agnosticism to the Catholic faith inThe Unknown God(1934),a widely read work of Christianapologeticswhich has been described as "the spiritual biography of a generation".In 1929, Noyes and Mary Angela settled atLisle Combe,on theUndercliffnearVentnor,Isle of Wight. They had three children: Hugh (1929–2000),Veronica and Margaret. Noyes' younger daughter marriedMichael Nolan(later Lord Nolan) in 1953.

The Torch-Bearers

Noyes' ambitious epic verse trilogyThe Torch-Bearers– comprisingWatchers of the Sky(1922),The Book of Earth(1925) andThe Last Voyage(1930) – deals with the history of science. In the "Prefatory Note" toWatchers of the Sky,Noyes expresses his purpose in writing the trilogy:

This volume, while it is complete in itself, is also the first of a trilogy, the scope of which is suggested in the prologue. 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. It is with these moments that my poem is chiefly concerned, not with any impossible attempt to cover the whole field or to make a new poetic system, after theLucretianmodel, out of modern science.

Watchers of the Sky

Noyes adds that the theme of the trilogy had long been in his mind, but the first volume, dealing withWatchers of the Sky,began to take definite shape only on the night of 1/2 November 1917, when the 100-inchreflecting telescopeatMount Wilson Observatorywas first tested by starlight.George Ellery Hale,the man who conceived and founded the observatory, had invited Noyes, who was then in California, to be his guest on this momentous occasion, and the prologue, subtitled "The Observatory", gives Noyes' detailed description of that "unforgettable...night". In his review ofWatchers of the Sky,the scholar andhistorian of scienceFrederick E. Braschwrites that Noyes' "journey up to the mountain's top, the observatory, the monastery, telescopes and mirrors, clockwork, switchboard, the lighted city below, planets and stars, atoms and electrons all are woven into...beautiful narrative poetry. It seems almost incredible that technical terms and concepts could lend themselves for that purpose."

After the prologue come seven long poems, each of which depicts salient episodes in the career of a major scientist, so as to bring out both the "intensely human drama" ( "Prefatory Note" ) of his life and his contribution to astronomy. Noyes' seven scientists areNicolaus Copernicus,Tycho Brahe,Johannes Kepler,Galileo Galilei,Isaac Newton,andWilliamandJohn Herschel– though due mention is also made of the contribution ofCaroline Herschel,sister to William and aunt to John. In the epilogue, Noyes meditates once more upon the mountain in the morning, before bringing his narrative to a close in the form of a prayer.

In his review, Frederick E. Brasch writes that Noyes' "knowledge of the science of astronomy and its history...seems remarkable in one who is so entirely unrelated to the work of an observatory".Watchers of the Sky,he adds, will no doubt appeal to the layman "for its beauty and the music of its narrative verse, broken and interspersed with epic poetry. But it remains for the astronomer and other scholars in science to enjoy it to the fullness which is adequate to Noyes' ability as a poet."

The Book of Earth

The Book of Earthis the second volume in the trilogy. In eight sections framed by a meditative prologue and epilogue, it follows the discoveries of scientists in their struggles to solve the mysteries of the earth, of life forms, and of human origins. Starting in ancient Greece withPythagorasandAristotle,it then moves to the Middle East forAl-FarabiandAvicenna.The scene then shifts successively to Italy forLeonardo da Vinci,France forJean-Étienne Guettard,Sweden forCarl Linnaeus,France again forGeorges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon,Jean Baptiste Lamarck,Antoine Lavoisier,andGeorges Cuvier,and then Germany forJohann Wolfgang von Goethe,before ending in England withCharles Darwin.ReviewingThe Book of EarthforNature,F. S. Marvin wrote, "It deals with a much more difficult subject from the point of view of poetic presentation, namely biology, or rather geology as a preface to zoology and evolution as crowning geology." Nevertheless, it does not "belie the...expectations" raised by its predecessor.

The Last Voyage

Before Noyes had begun proper work on the final volume in the trilogy,The Last Voyage,two events occurred which were to influence it greatly: his first wife's death and his conversion to Roman Catholicism. Death is a major theme inThe Last Voyage,as its very title suggests. The tone, more sombre than that of its predecessors, is also more religious – though religion was hardly absent from the earlier volumes – and, as might be expected, more specifically Catholic.

The Last Voyagebegins at night in mid-Atlantic, where an ocean liner, "a great ship like a lighted city", is battling through a raging storm. A little girl is mortally ill. The ship's surgeon prepares to operate, but with little hope of success, for the case is complicated and he is no specialist. Luckily, the captain knows from thewirelessnews that a top specialist fromJohns Hopkins Hospitalis on another liner 400 miles away – within wireless range. The ship's surgeon will be able to consult him, and stay in touch with him throughout the operation. Suddenly, the little girl's chances of survival are much improved. In a manner of speaking, all the scientific discoveries and inventions of the past are being brought to bear in the attempt to save her life. When the poet asks a casually-met fellow-passenger, "You think they'll save her?" the stranger replies, "Theymay save her ", and then adds Enigma tically," But who areThey?"

Reflecting, the poet realises thatTheyare all the seekers and discoverers of scientific truths through the ages – people likeWilliam Harvey,Louis PasteurandJoseph Listerin the field of medicine orMichael Faraday,James Clerk MaxwellandHeinrich Hertzin the development of the wireless. Nevertheless, despite the united efforts of all, the little girl dies, and in the darkness of that loss the poet finds that only inFaithcan a flicker of light be found. Science cannot defeat death in the long run, and sometimes, as in the little girl's case, not even in the short run, but if "Love, not Death" is the ultimate reality, death will not have the final word. Of course, the "last voyage" of the title is not just that of the little girl or of Noyes' wife – though there are lyrics mourning her in Section XIII and another in the Dedication at the end – but of everyman and everywoman.

F. S. Marvin, who reviewed all three volumes ofThe Torch-BearersforNature,wrote that "the third volume is certainly the best from the artistic point of view. It contains one well-conceived and highly interesting incident, around which the author's pictures of the past and incidental lyrics are effectively grouped, and it leads up to a full and eloquent exposition of the religious synthesis with which the history of science inspires him."

The Last Man

In 1940 Noyes published a science fiction novel,The Last Man(US title:No Other Man),in which the human race is almost wiped out by a powerfuldeath raycapable of killing everyone, friend or foe, unless they are in a steel chamber deep under the surface of the sea. The inventor's chief assistant unscrupulously sells the plans to the leading nations of the world, who declare they will use the ray only as a "last resort". When events spiral out of control, however, they all activate it, killing everyone living on the earth.

When the death ray strikes, a 29-year-old Englishman named Mark Adams is trapped in a sunken submarine. Managing to escape, he finds himself the only survivor in Britain. He travels to Paris in the hope of finding another survivor. There he discovers a clue which gives him hope. His search leads him to Italy, where he finally finds the other survivor, an American girl named Evelyn Hamilton. At the time when the death ray struck, she was in adiving belldeep below the surface of the Mediterranean, where, under the guidance of Mardok, an immensely wealthy magnate and scientific genius, she was engaged in photographing the floor of the sea. Her companion turns out to be the villain of the story. Knowing the power of the ray, for whose development he had been largely responsible, he had made sure that, at the time of its activation, he was safely out of its reach, along with an attractive young woman with whom he could later begin the repopulation of the planet. Evelyn, however, finds him repulsive, and the arrival of the upstanding, handsome young Englishman further upsets Mardok's plan. In the ensuing competition between the two men for the girl, Mark Adams' surname is a clear hint at which of the two is better fitted to beAdamto Evelyn'sEve.The two young people fall in love, but Mardok kidnaps Evelyn. After her escape and Mardok's death,the novel concludes with the young couple's discovery of some other survivors atAssisi.

For Charles Holland, reviewing the novel in the 1940s, Noyes' combination of "such elements of human interest as apologetics, art, travel and a captivating love story" mean that the reader ofThe Last Manis assured of both "an intellectual treat and real entertainment".Eric Atlas, writing in an earlyscience fiction fanzine,found the novel, despite some flaws, "well worth the reading – perhaps twice". The philosophico-religious theme, he wrote, "detracts in no way from the forceful characterizations...of Mark and Evelyn". Besides, most of the novel is set "in Italy, where Noyes' descriptive powers as a poet come to the fore".The Last Manseems to be the novel which introduced the idea of adoomsday weapon.It is thought to have been among the influences onGeorge Orwell'sNineteen Eighty-Four.

Later years

In 1940, Noyes returned to North America, where he lectured and advocated the British war position.The following year, he gave theJosiah Woodlectures atMount Allison University,New Brunswick, Canada. TitledThe Edge of the Abyss,they were first published in Canada in 1942 and then, in a revised version, in the United States the same yearand in Britain two years later. InThe Edge of the Abyss,Noyes ponders the future of the world, attacking totalitarianism, bureaucracy, the pervasive power of the state, and the collapse of moral standards.George Orwellreviewed the book forThe Observerand, likeThe Last Man,it is considered a probable influence onNineteen Eighty-Four.

In his review, Orwell wrote thatThe Edge of the Abyss"raises a real problem" – the "decay in the belief in absolute good and evil", with the result that the "rules of behaviour on which any stable society has to rest are dissolving" and "even the prudential reasons for common decency are being forgotten". Indeed, in Orwell's view, Noyes "probably even underemphasises the harm done to ordinary common sense by the cult of 'realism', with its inherent tendency to assume that the dishonest course is always the profitable one". On the other hand, Orwell finds Noyes' suggested remedy, a return to Christianity, "doubtful, even from the point of view of practicality". He agrees that the "real problem of our time is to restore the sense of absolute right and wrong", which in the past had ultimately rested on "faith", but he thinks that Noyes "is probably wrong in imagining that the Christian faith, as it existed in the past, can be restored even in Europe". Orwell offers no suggestion, however, as to what, other than faith, could serve as a basis for morality.

Noyes remained in retirement in California for some years.In 1943, he publishedThe Secret of Pooduck Island,a children's story set off the coast ofMaine.It features a family of squirrels threatened by natural enemies (skunks, weasels) and humans, the ghost of a Native American man who suffered a terrible sorrow in thecolonial era,and a teenage boy who has ambitions to be an artist and who is able to help both the squirrels and the ghost. It is, however, far more profound and terrible than the lighthearted accounts of animal behaviour seem on the surface to indicate; a mysterious voice keeps whispering words of mystery to the artist Solo, and most of the characters turn out to be incarnations of the various follies and stupidities of mankind: the fierce lonely boy-artist (who is nearly locked up as insane by the petty spiteful villagers) and the pudgy but wise priest, as well as the solemn ghost of Squando, being the only exceptions against which the others are contrasted. The entire "secret" of Pooduck Island consists in the gleams of the supernatural that blaze through the canopy of the material world, like a glimpse of the ocean through an arch in the woods that Solo names the "Eye" of the island. The mysterious Voice, who is hinted to be Glooskap himself, appears indirectly as an invisible model for a portrait of the Squirrel family, who think they are seated on a stump: but the picture records him.

In 1949, Noyes returned to his home on theIsle of Wight.As a result of increasing blindness, he dictated all his subsequent works.In 1952 he brought out another book for children,Daddy Fell into the Pond and Other Poems.The title poemhas remained a firm favourite with children ever since. In 2005, it was one of the few poems that featured in both of two major anthologies of poetry for children published that year, one edited byCaroline Kennedy,the other byElise Paschen.

In 1955, Noyes published the satiricalfantasynovelThe Devil Takes A Holiday,in which theDevil,in the guise of Mr Lucius Balliol, an international financier, comes toSanta Barbara, California,for a pleasant little holiday. He finds however, that his work is being so efficiently performed by humankind that he has become redundant. The unwonted soul-searching this leads him to is not only painful but also – owing to atragicomictwist at the end – ultimately futile.

Noyes' last book of poetry,A Letter to Lucian and Other Poems,came out in 1956, two years before his death by polio.

The Accusing Ghost

In 1957, Noyes published his last book,The Accusing Ghost, or Justice for Casement(US title:The Accusing Ghost of Roger Casement). In 1916, the renowned human rights campaignerRoger Casementwas hanged for his involvement in the Irish Nationalist revolt in Dublin known as theEaster Rising.To forestall calls for clemency, the British authorities showed public figures and known sympathizers selected pages from some of Casement's diaries – known as theBlack Diaries– that exposed him as a promiscuous homosexual. As a consequence the expected protests and petitions for Casement's reprieve failed to materialise.

Among those who read these extracts was Noyes, who was then working in the News Department of the Foreign Office and who described the pages as a "foul record" of "the lowest depths that human degradation has ever touched". Later that year inPhiladelphia,when Noyes was about to give a lecture on the English poets, he was confronted by Casement's sister, Nina, who denounced him as a "blackguardly scoundrel" and cried, "Your countrymen hanged my brother Roger Casement."

Worse was to come. After Casement's death, the British authorities held the diaries in conditions of extraordinary secrecy, arousing strong suspicions among Casement's supporters that they were forged. In 1936, there appeared a book by an American doctor, William J. Maloney, calledThe Forged Casement Diaries.After reading it,W. B. Yeatswrote a protest poem, "Roger Casement", which was published with great prominence inThe Irish Press.In the fifth stanza of the poem, Yeats named Alfred Noyes and called on him to desert the side of the forger and perjurer. Noyes immediately responded with a letter toThe Irish Pressin which he explained why he had assumed the diaries were authentic, confessed he might have been misled,and called for the setting up of a committee to examine the original documents and settle the matter. In response to what he called Noyes' "noble" letter, Yeats amended his poem, removing Noyes' name.

Over twenty years later, Casement's diaries were still being held in the same conditions of secrecy. In 1957, therefore, Noyes publishedThe Accusing Ghost, or Justice for Casement,a stinging rebuke of British policyin which, making full amends for his previous harsh judgement, he argued that Casement had indeed been the victim of aBritish Intelligenceplot.

In 2002, aforensicexamination of theBlack Diariesconcluded that they were authentic.

Death

The grave of Noyes and his wife

Noyes' last poem,Ballade of the Breaking Shell,was written in May 1958, one month before his death.He died at the age of 77, and is buried in the Roman Catholic cemetery atTotland,Isle of Wight.

Works

Poetry

• The Loom of Years(1902)
• The Flower of Old Japan(1903)
• The Forest of Wild Thyme(1905)
• The Highwayman(1906)
• Drake(1906–08)
• Forty Singing Seamen and Other Poems(1907)
• The Golden Hynde(1908)
• Tales of the Mermaid Tavern(1913)
• Watchers of the Sky(1922)
• The Book of Earth(1925)
• The Last Voyage(1930)
• The Torch-bearers(1937)(the three books now combined as a single work)
• Shadows on the Down(1941)
• Collected Poems(1950)
• Daddy Fell into the Pond(1952)
• A Letter to Lucian(1956)

Other works

• The Thames in Literaturepp. 123–127, July 1907,The Bookman
• William Morris(1908) Biography.
• Rada(1914) Drama.
• Walking Shadows(1918) Short Stories.
• The Hidden Player(1924) Short Stories.
• Some Aspects of Modern Poetry(1924) Criticism.
• The Opalescent Parrot(1929) Criticism.
• The Return of the Scare-Crow(The Sun Curein America) (1929) Novel.
• The Unknown God(1934) Intellectual Autobiography.
• Orchard's Bay(1936) Essays.
• Voltaire(1936) Biography
• The Last Man(1940) Novel.
• Pageant of Letters(1940) Criticism.
• The Secret of Pooduck Island(1943) Children's story.
• Two Worlds for Memory(1953) Autobiography.
• The Devil Takes A Holiday(1955) Novel.
• The Accusing Ghost(1957)

Films based on Noyes' works

• The Highwayman
• Dick Turpin's Ride

Songs based on Noyes' works

• Eight songs set by to music by Elgar in the 1924Pageant of Empire
• Bacchus and the Pirates(Michael Brough)
• "Everywhere" (1987 music video by Fleetwood Mac)
• Madrigals Book XICarmina Silvicola(Clive Strutt)
• The HighwaymanbyPhil Ochs
• Let My Love Be HeardbyJake Runestad,setting of Noyes’A Prayer
• The HighwaymanbyLoreena McKennitt
• The River of Stars: A Legend of Niagara(1917; music by Clarence Bawden)

External links

• Works by Alfred NoyesatProject Gutenberg
• Works by Alfred NoyesatFaded Page(Canada)
• Works by or about Alfred NoyesatInternet Archive
• Works by Alfred NoyesatLibriVox(public domain audiobooks)
• Works by Alfred Noyes,atHathi Trust
• Escape's radio adaptation of Noyes' "The Log of theEvening Star"
• Alfred Noyes'The River of Stars: A Legend of Niagara,on theNiagara Falls Poetry Projectwebsite