The Highwayman
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Topic: The Highwayman
Posted By: duke
Subject: The Highwayman
Date Posted: Feb 8, 2002 at 12:05pm
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The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes is a tragic, striking poem. Part goes like - Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed in the dark inn-yard. He tapped with his whip on the shutters, but all was locked and barred. He whistled a tune to the window, and who should be waiting there, but Bess, the landlord`s daughter, The landlord`s black-eyed daughter, plaiting a dark-red love-knot into her long black hair. Then, She loosened her hair in the casement, his face burned like a brand, (and I think then "and he kissed her hair in the moonlight...and galloped away to the west" - I`m quoting this more or less accurately from memory). In about the early 1980s, British author/illustrator Charles Keeping made a picturebook of this in black and white. The pictures strikingly compliment the words. Bess is shown innocently braiding a long strip of something within her hair, and after it flows down to the "gallant" highwayman in an elegant cascade as he kisses it. But what precisely is a love knot? ------------- |
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Posted By: duke
Date Posted: Feb 8, 2002 at 12:05pm
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The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes is a tragic, striking poem. Part goes like - Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed in the dark inn-yard. He tapped with his whip on the shutters, but all was locked and barred. He whistled a tune to the window, and who should be waiting there, but Bess, the landlord`s daughter, The landlord`s black-eyed daughter, plaiting a dark-red love-knot into her long black hair. Then, She loosened her hair in the casement, his face burned like a brand, (and I think then "and he kissed her hair in the moonlight...and galloped away to the west" - I`m quoting this more or less accurately from memory). In about the early 1980s, British author/illustrator Charles Keeping made a picturebook of this in black and white. The pictures strikingly compliment the words. Bess is shown innocently braiding a long strip of something within her hair, and after it flows down to the "gallant" highwayman in an elegant cascade as he kisses it. But what precisely is a love knot? |
Posted By: Lily
Date Posted: Jun 11, 2003 at 12:38pm
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I think a love-knot is a flower''s name.... I love that poem, do you know Loreena McKennitt put the words to music, very beautiful.:) |
Posted By: Sophie
Date Posted: Jun 11, 2003 at 1:27pm
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Very nice guy's. I love Loreena McKinnett....we play her at the Salon all of the time....I'm going to pay closer attention to the word's from now on.   ! ( A(bb 4be $ ",`b -& 0 %,($$ (--!!,,br #4
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