Quotes from Alfred Noyes

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

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

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....

Deep in the greenwood of my heart Is my abiding-place: I cloak my soul at feast and mart; I mask my face. Outlawed, but not alone, for Truth Is outlawed, too. You cannot banish us, proud world: We banish you.

Go by, go by, with all your din, Your dust, your greed, your guile, Your pomp, your gold; you cannot win From her one smile.... Outlawed? Then hills and glens and streams Are outlawed, too. Proud world, from our immortal dreams, We banish you.

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

One kiss, my bonny sweetheart; I'm after a prize tonight, But I shall be back with the yellow gold before the morning light. Yet if they press me sharply, and harry me through the day, Then look for me by moonlight, Watch for me by moonlight, I'll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way.

I'll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way.

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

The universe is neither centered on earth nor the sun. It is centered on God.

love lies hidden in every rose...

Heart of my heart, we are one with the wind, One with the clouds that are whirled o'er the lea, One in many, O broken and blind, One as the waves are at one with the sea! Ay! when life seems scattered apart, Darkens, ends as a tale that is told, One, we are one, O heart of my heart, One, still one, while the world grows old.

Love is in the greenwood, dawn is in the skies, And Marian is waiting with a glory in her eyes.

Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed in the dark inn-yard, And he tapped with his whip on the shutters, but all was locked and barred; He whistled a tune to the window, and who should be waiting there But the landlord's black-eyed daughter, Bess, the landlord's daughter, Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black hair.

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.

Heart of my heart, the world is young; Love lies hidden in every rose!

The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas.

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

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.

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

God how the dead men Grin by the wall Watching the fun Of the Victory Ball.

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

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