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This poem is breathtaking. The flow and rythym are fabulous...

And this poem is also a song. Loreena McKennit put it to music, and I can't express how beautiful it is.

A beautiful romance that floods your inward eye with fabulous images..always read the original!!!

If you're going to be a one-poem poet and want all to know it then write a poem with the beauty of The Highwayman. I learned this poem by heart in Grade 8 and I still use it with students of all ages from Grade 1 through graduate school.

This poem is magnifecent. It has been my favorite poem for years. My brother seems to think that the song of it is the only song by Loreena McKennit worth listening to. I love the way Alfred Noyes wrote the meaning in the poem. You can tell that Bess and the Highwayman's love was pure and that not even death could part their love. I think that it is beautiful that two people could love each other so much as to give up their lives for the other.

THE HIGHWAYMAN POem is real good ,my teacher read it to me and it was realy good i loved it. It is soooo good i cant stop thinking of it. Everyone should read this poem.It is realy good i am saying it over and over it is realy good poem......

I was ten in 1957 and my class photo shows 53 kids. The teacher read the class this poem and I remember how we listened silent and enthralled, it was so exciting and dramatic even though some of the words were difficult and it's a long poem. She must have read it well.

Years afterwards some vivid phrases (the road was a ribbon of moonlight, he tapped with his whip on the shutters) were still lodged vividly in my memory, generating images of romance and mystery - I had no idea where they came from till I heard the poem again on the radio recently and tracked it down.

Why do we love this poem so much? The Highwayman is a ROBBER and Bess is his floozy (sorry, Marjorie) and if you were one of his victims you would be only too glad to see him taken out by King George's men. They behaved abominably towards Bess, but although they used her as a decoy there is no suggestion that they actually raped her.
But oh! those thigh-length boots and the doeskin breeches! Oh! the way he effortlessly handles the horse (a black stallion, no doubt). Like everyone else, I am hopelessly in love with The Highwayman. I live in England and know so well those moonlit moorland roads and the remote country inns where, without too much imagination, you can hear him riding, riding......one of my favourite poems!

I was read the poem first in year four by my teacher, and I was entranced. It was only read to me once, but it has always stayed well placed in my mind. Now doing my englich assignment on it, I can now appreciate the poem fully. It is beautiful, and sad. I loved it.

Like everbody else I was read this poem once, some 20 years ago, but I could never remember who wrote it. Those phrases lived on in some part of me, and now I have finally found it. I love this poem, its lush overblowen romanticism, the rhythms, the imagary, how can you not adore it
Emily

this poem is romantic and eyecatching