1913. English poet, best known for his poems The Highwayman and The Barrel-Organ. His first volume of verse, Loom of Years, appeared in 1902. It was followed by such poems as the epic Drake and the colorful Tales of the Mermaid Tavern. Noyes wrote this long poem about a woodcutter who leaves his baby and wife to enlist after being recruited by men carrying discs of gold. The man ends up in battle where blood is coming out of him like grape juice, which is where the title Wine-Press: A Tale of War comes from. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.