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Walter de la Mare (1873 - 1958 / Kent / England)
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''All but blind
Walter De La Mare (1873-1956), British poet. All but Blind (l. 1-4). PDV. Piping down the Valleys Wild; Poetry for the Young of All Ages. Nancy Larrick, ed. (1968) Delacorte Press.
In his chambered hole
Gropes for worms
The four-clawed Mole.''
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''So, blind to Someone
Walter De La Mare (1873-1956), British poet. All but Blind (l. 15-16). PDV. Piping down the Valleys Wild; Poetry for the Young of All Ages. Nancy Larrick, ed. (1968) Delacorte Press.
I must be.''
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''We wake and whisper awhile,
Walter De La Mare (1873-1956), British poet. All That's Past (l. 21-24). OAEL-2. Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Frank Kermode and John Hollander, general eds. (1973) Oxford University Press (Also published as six paperback vols.: Medieval English Literature, J. B. Trapp, ed.; The Literature of Renaissance England, John Hollander and Frank Kermode, eds.; The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, Martin Price, ed.; Romantic Poetry and Prose, Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling, eds.; Victorian Prose and Poetry, Lionel Trilling and Harold Bloom, eds.; Modern British Literature, Frank Kermode and John Hollander, eds.).
But, the day gone by,
Silence and sleep like fields
Of amaranth lie.''
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''Oh, no man knows
Walter De La Mare (1873-1956), British poet. All That's Past (l. 7-8). OAEL-2. Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Frank Kermode and John Hollander, general eds. (1973) Oxford University Press (Also published as six paperback vols.: Medieval English Literature, J. B. Trapp, ed.; The Literature of Renaissance England, John Hollander and Frank Kermode, eds.; The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, Martin Price, ed.; Romantic Poetry and Prose, Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling, eds.; Victorian Prose and Poetry, Lionel Trilling and Harold Bloom, eds.; Modern British Literature, Frank Kermode and John Hollander, eds.).
Through what wild centuries
Roves back the rose.''
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''"A bumpity ride in a wagon of hay
Walter De La Mare (1873-1956), British poet. Bunches of Grapes (l. 11-12). OxBChV. Oxford Book of Children's Verse, The. Iona Opie and Peter Opie, eds. (1973) Oxford University Press.
For me," says Jane.''
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''"Bunches of grapes," says Timothy;
Walter De La Mare (1873-1956), British poet. Bunches of Grapes (l. 1-3). OxBChV. Oxford Book of Children's Verse, The. Iona Opie and Peter Opie, eds. (1973) Oxford University Press.
"Pomegranates pink," says Elaine;
"A junket of cream and a cranberry tart."''
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''But beauty vanishes; beauty passes;
Walter De La Mare (1873-1956), British poet. Here lies a most beautiful lady (l. 5-8). OBEV. Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.
However rare—rare it be;
And when I crumble, who will remember
This lady of the West Country?''
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''Do diddle di do,
Walter De La Mare (1873-1956), British poet. Jim Jay (l. 1-4). SD. Sprints and Distances; Sports in Poetry and the Poetry in Sport. Lillian Morrison, comp. (1965) Thomas Y. Crowell Company.
Poor Jim Jay
Got stuck fast
In Yesterday.''
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''It's a very odd thing—
Walter De La Mare (1873-1956), British poet. Miss T. (l. 1-4). FaBoBe. Family Book of Best Loved Poems, The. David L. George, ed. (1952) Doubleday & Company.
As odd as can be—
That whatever Miss T. eats
Turns into Miss T.;''
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'''What is the world, O soldiers?
Walter De La Mare (1873-1956), British poet. Napoleon (l. 1-4). NOBE. New Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1950. Helen Gardner, ed. (1972) Oxford University Press.
It is I,
I, this incessant snow,
This northern sky;''
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