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    Poems of Walter de la Mare, 1873-1956

    Selected from Collected Poems 1901-1918, Vol II: Songs of Childhood, Peacock Pie, 1920, unless otherwise noted. We compiled a brief biography of de la Mare for you. Click here to read it. Purchase AO's Volume 2 poetry collection, which includes de la Mare, Field, Riley, and Rossetti in paperback or Kindle ($amzn)(K)

    01. The Horseman
    02. Up and Down
    03. Mrs. Earth
    04. Tired Tim
    05. I Can't Abear
    06. Some One
    07. The Little Bird
    08. The Cupboard
    09. Hide and Seek
    10. The Window
    11. A Widow's Weeds
    12. The Little Green Orchard
    13. King David
    14. The Old House
    15. Unstooping
    16. All But Blind
    17. Nicholas Nye
    18. Five Eyes
    19. Summer Evening
    20. Earth Folk
    21. The Ruin
    22. Trees
    23. Silver
    24. Nobody Knows
    25. Wanderers
    26. Many a Mickle
    27. Will Ever?
    28. The Song of the Secret
    29. The Song of the Soldiers
    30. The Bees' Song
    31. Song of Enchantment
    32. Dream Song
    33. The Song of Shadows
    34. The Song of the Mad Prince
    35. The Song of Finis
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    The Listeners

    'Is there anybody there? ' said the Traveller,
    Knocking on the moonlit door;
    And his horse in the silence champed the grass
    Of the forest's ferny floor;
    And a bird flew up out of the turret,
    Above the Traveller's head:
    And he smote upon the door again a second time;
    'Is there anybody there? ' he said.
    But no one descended to the Traveller;
    No head from the leaf-fringed sill
    Leaned over and looked into his grey eyes,
    Where he stood perplexed and still.
    But only a host of phantom listeners
    That dwelt in the lone house then
    Stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight
    To that voice from the world of men:
    Stood thronging the faint moonbeams on the dark stair,
    That goes down to the empty hall,
    Hearkening in an air stirred and shaken
    By the lonely Traveller's call.
    And he felt in his heart their strangeness,
    Their stillness answering his cry,
    While his horse moved, cropping the dark turf,
    'Neath the starred an

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    Biography of Walter de la Mare, 1873-1956

    "Between Waking and Dreaming": Biographical Sketch bygd Anne White

    "You must have a silver penny to get into Fairyland." (Preface to Silver Pennies)

    "And when--after a hot breathless night during which she had lain between waking and dreaming while the lightning flared at her fönster, and the thunder raved over the sea--when, next morning, she came down very early to find that the hungry mice had stolen more than half of the handful of oatmeal she had left in the cupboard and that her little crock of milk had turned sour, her heart all but failed her. She sat down on the doorstep and she began to cry." ("A Penny a Day")

    I read this story at about the age of eight, and it was my first meeting with Walter de la Mare, along with the poem "Some One." It's a fairy tale about a poor but generous girl and a dwarf named Moleskins who offers to help her in exchange for a penny a day . . . but he may not be entirely trustworthy (is he the one steal