About the Book

This wonderful volume contains an extensive collection of some of Alfred Noyes's most beautiful and celebrated poetry. A volume that will appeal to a wide range of poetry-lovers, this collection embodies the delight of English ballad, and would make for a worthy addition to any bookshelf.

The poems contained within this volume include: "The Loom of Years", "In The Heart of the Woods", "Art", "A Triple Ballad of Old Japan", "The Symbolist", "Haunted in Old Japan", "Necromancy", "The Mystic", "The Flower of Old Japan", "Apes and Ivory", and many more.

Alfred Noyes (1880 – 1958) was a seminal English poet, short-story writer and playwright who is best remembered for his ballads, "The Highwayman" and "The Barrel-Organ". We are republishing this vintage book now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a new prefatory biography of Alfred Noyes.