26. Wanting to occupy herself, she began "plaiting a dark red love knot into her long black hair."
In which poem did Bess do this?
From Quiz Dark Encounter!
Answer:
"The Highwayman" by Alfred Noyes
Noyes was born in Wolverhampton, England, the son of Alfred and Amelia Adams Noyes. When he was four, the family moved to Aberystwyth, Wales, where his father taught Latin and Greek. The Welsh coast and mountains were an early inspiration to Noyes. In 1898, he left Aberystwyth for Exeter College, Oxford, where he distinguished himself at rowing, but failed to get his degree because, on a crucial day of his finals in 1902, he was meeting his publisher to arrange publication of his first volume of poems, The Loom of Years (1902).
From 1903 to 1913, Noyes published five additional volumes of poetry, among them "The Flower of Old Japan" (1903) and "Poems" (1904), which included one of his most popular poems, "The Barrel-Organ". His most famous poem, "The Highwayman", was first published in the August 1906 issue of "Blackwood's Magazine", and included the following year in "Forty Singing Seamen and Other Poems". In a nationwide poll conducted by the BBC in 1995 to find Britain's favourite poem, "The Highwayman" was voted the nation's 15th favourite poem.