Book Description

This vintage book contains Alfred Noyes’s 1915 collection of poetry, "The Lord Of Misrule And Other Poems". This fantastic volume is recommended for all lovers of poetry, and it constitutes a veritable must-read for fans of Noyes’s beautiful work. The poems of this collection include: “The Lord of Misrule”, “The Repeal”, “The Search-Lights”, “Forward”, “A Spell”, “Crimson Sails”, “Blind Moone of London”, “Old Grey Squirrel”, “The Great North Road”, “The River of Stars”, “A Knight of Old Japan”, “The Strange Guest”, “Ghosts”, “The Day of Remembrance”, etcetera. Alfred Noyes (1880 - 1958) was an English playwright, poet, and writer of short-stories. He is most remembered for his ballads "The Highwayman" and "The Barrel-Organ". Many antiquarian books such as this are increasingly hard to come by and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern, high quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.