Alfred Noyes

LibriVox volunteers bring you eleven recordings of Nippon by Alfred Noyes. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of June 9th, 2007. Author - Alfred Noyes. Narrator - LibriVox Community. Published Date - Thursday, 19 January 2023.

This is not heart warming holiday fare. It is a short (one-act) unsubtle antiwar play by the English poet Alfred Noyes (1880-1958), published in 1915 while World War I is in progress. Part of the work is in verse. Music sung by Duane Steadman....

A Highwayman ravages the countryside, robbing the unsuspecting traveler. He promises to come at midnight for Bess, the landlord’s daughter.But when the redcoats come, and lay a trap for the Highwayman at the inn, Bess warns her lover in a method and...