3 Quotes & Sayings By Alfred Noyes

Alfred Noyes was born at North Walsham, Norfolk, England on November 20, 1866. He was educated at Sherborne School, Dorset, and at King's College, London. He emigrated to Canada in 1889 where he became a journalist. He also published several novels that were very popular with the public Read more

In 1896 he moved to the United States where he joined the staff of The Christian Herald. He died in Montclair, New Jersey on January 30, 1936.

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Stand like a beaten anvil, when thy dream Is laid upon thee, golden from the fire. Flinch not, though heavily through that furnace-gleam The black forge-hammers fall on thy desire. Demoniac giants round thee seem to loom.' Tis but the world-smiths heaving to and fro. Stand like a beaten anvil. Take the doom Their ponderous weapons deal thee, blow on blow. Needful to truth as dew-fall to the flower Is this wild wrath and this implacable scorn. For every pang, new beauty, and new power, Burning blood-red shall on thy heart be born. Stand like a beaten anvil. Let earth's wrong Beat on that iron and ring back in song. Alfred Noyes
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God how the dead men Grin by the wall Watching the fun Of the Victory Ball. Alfred Noyes