The Highwayman : PART ONE I THE wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor, And the highwayman came riding— ...
A highwayman comes riding— Riding—riding— A highwayman comes riding, up to the old inn-door. XI Over the cobbles he clatters and clangs in the dark inn-yard; He taps with his whip on the shutters, but all is locked and barred; He whistles a tune to the window, and wh...
She made me forget what century I lived in, that I was ashamed I was young, when she was old, and well, where she was sick, so when we opened up our books one day I read THE HIGHWAYMAN and I was he. She made me forget that he dies. I read...
"The Highwayman" is an interesting narrative poem written by Alfred Noyes. It was first published in the Scottish "Backwoods’s Magazine" of August 1906 edition. In the following year, it was published in the Alfred Noyes’ collection captioned "Forty Singing Seamen and Other Poems". The str...
Bonnie was a waitress in a small cafe Clyde Barrow was the rounder that took her away They both robbed and killed until both loved and died So goes the legend of Bonnie and Clyde The poem that she wrote of the life that they led ...
BRENNAN ON THE MOOR - Willie Brennan was a famous Irish highwayman in the second half of the eighteenth century. His popularity stemmed from the reputation that no blood sullied his exploits. Whether it was true or not, is conjecture, but Brennan himself met a violent end when he was ...
. And nearby the house is a pub with that very name: a plaque relates that “it was originally called The Three Cranes but in the eighteenth century a famous highwayman was caught there unawares by a young lord whom he had robbed. ‘Now, sir,’ cried the peer as soon as he had ...
The Pilgrim's Progress would have been no better if its author had been a generally respected churchwarden instead of a jailbird, and no worse if he had been a highwayman instead of a tinker. One cannot even help oneself to become famous by any given methods. One may, indeed, push ...
Alfred Noyes