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Walter de la Mare
Walter de la Mare (1873 - 1958 / Kent / England)
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Sir Walter de la Mare was born at Charlton, Kent, in the south of England, of well-to-do parents. His father, James Edward Delamaere, was an official .. more >>
45 poems of Walter de la Mare
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  ''Softly along the road of evening,
In a twilight dim with rose,
Wrinkled with age, and drenched with dew
Old Nod, the shepherd, goes.''
Walter De La Mare (1873-1956), British poet. Nod (l. 1-4). OxBTC. Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip Larkin, ed. (1973) O...
 
  ''His are the quiet steeps of dreamland,
The waters of no-more-pain;
His ram's bell rings 'neath an arch of stars,
"Rest, rest, and rest again."''
Walter De La Mare (1873-1956), British poet. Nod (l. 17-20). OxBTC. Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip Larkin, ed. (1973)...
 
  ''Wonderful lovely there she sat,
Singing the night away,
All in the solitudinous sea
Of that there lonely bay.''
Walter De La Mare (1873-1956), British poet. Sam (l. 29-31). FaBV. Family Book of Verse, The. Lewis Gannett, ed. (1961) Harper & Row.
 
  ''Slowly, silently, now the moon
Walks the night in her silver shoon;''
Walter De La Mare (1873-1956), British poet. Silver (l. 1-2). FaPO-. Favorite Poems Old and New. Helen Ferris, ed. (1957) Doubleday & Company.
 
  ''A harvest mouse goes scampering by,
With silver claws and silver eye;
And moveless fish in the water gleam,
By silver reeds in a silver stream.''
Walter De La Mare (1873-1956), British poet. Silver (l. 11-14). FaPO-. Favorite Poems Old and New. Helen Ferris, ed. (1957) Doubleday & Company.
 
  ''Some one came knocking
At my wee, small door;
Some one came knocking,
I'm sure—sure—sure;''
Walter De La Mare (1873-1956), British poet. Some one came knocking (l. 1-4). FaPO-. Favorite Poems Old and New. Helen Ferris, ed. (1957) Doubleda...
 
  ''Dobbin at manger pulls his hay:
Gone is another summer's day.''
Walter De La Mare (1873-1956), British poet. Summer Evening (l. 7-8). FM. Fellow Mortals; an Anthology of Animal Verse. Roy Fuller, comp. (1981) M...
 
  ''Old Rover in his moss-greened house
Mumbles a bone, and barks at a mouse.''
Walter De La Mare (1873-1956), British poet. Summer Evening (l. 3-4). FM. Fellow Mortals; an Anthology of Animal Verse. Roy Fuller, comp. (1981) M...
 
  ''A face peered. All the grey night
In chaos of vacancy shone;
Naught but vast sorrow was there—
The sweet cheat gone.''
Walter De La Mare (1873-1956), British poet. The Ghost (l. 18-20). OAEL-2. Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Frank Kermode ...
 
  '''Who knocks?' 'I, who was beautiful,
Beyond all dreams to restore,
I from the roots of the dark thorn am hither,
And knock on the door.'''
Walter De La Mare (1873-1956), British poet. The Ghost (l. 1-4). OAEL-2. Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Frank Kermode an...
 

 
 
 
 
 
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