Collected poems, 1901-1918

by Walter De la Mare

COLLECTED POEMS

COLLECTED POEMS

1901-1918

BY

WALTER DE LA MARE

IN TWO VOLUMES

VOL. I

NEW YORK

HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY

1920

Copyright, 1920

BY

Henry Holt and Company

CONTENTS

POEMS: 1906

Lyrical Poems—		PAGE
	Shadow	5
	Unregarding	6
	They Told Me	7
	Sorcery	8
	The Children of Stare	10
	Age	12
	The Glimpse	14
	Remembrance	16
	Treachery	17
	In Vain	18
	The Miracle	19
	Keep Innocency	21
	The Phantom	23
	Voices	25
	Thule	26
	The Birthnight: to F	27
	The Death-Dream	28
	"Where Is Thy Victory?"	29
	Foreboding	31
	Vain Finding	33
	Napoleon	34
	England	35
	Truce	36
	Evening	37
	Night	39
	The Universe	40

		PAGE
	Gloria Mundi	41
	Idleness	43
	Goliath	45
Characters from Shakespeare—
	Falstaff	49
	Macbeth	51
	Banquo	52
	Mercutio	53
	Juliet's Nurse	54
	Iago	56
	Imogen	58
	Polonius	59
	Ophelia	60
	Hamlet	61
Sonnets—
	The Happy Encounter	65
	April	66
	Sea-Magic	67
	The Market-Place	68
	Anatomy	69
	Even in the Grave	70
	Bright Life	71
	Humanity	72
	Virtue	73
Memories of Childhood—
	Reverie	77
	The Massacre	78
	Echo	80
	Fear	81
	The Mermaids	83

		PAGE
	Myself	84
	Autumn	85
	Winter	86
	Envoi: To My Mother	91

THE LISTENERS: 1914

	The Three Cherry Trees	95
	Old Susan	96
	Old Ben	97
	Miss Loo	99
	The Tailor	101
	Martha	102
	The Sleeper	104
	The Keys of Morning	106
	Rachel	108
	Alone	109
	The Bells	111
	The Scarecrow	112
	Nod	113
	The Bindweed	114
	Winter	115
	There Blooms No Bud in May	116
	Noon and Night Flower	117
	Estranged	118
	The Tired Cupid	119
	Dreams	120
	Faithless	121
	The Shade	122
	Be Angry Now No More	123
	Exile	124
	Where?	125
	Music Unheard	126
	All That's Past	128
	When the Rose Is Faded	130

		PAGE
	Sleep	131
	The Stranger	132
	Never More Sailor	133
	Arabia	135
	The Mountains	136
	Queen Djenira	137
	Never-to-Be	138
	The Dark Château	140
	The Dwelling-Place	142
	The Listeners	144
	Time Passes	146
	Beware!	148
	The Journey	149
	Haunted	153
	Silence	155
	Winter Dusk	157
	The Ghost	159
	An Epitaph	160
	"The Hawthorn Hath a Deathly Smell"	161

MOTLEY: 1919

	The Little Salamander	165
	The Linnet	166
	The Sunken Garden	167
	The Riddlers	168
	Moonlight	170
	The Blind Boy	171
	The Quarry	172
	Mrs. Grundy	173
	The Tryst	175
	Alone	177
	The Empty House	178
	Mistress Fell	180
	The Ghost	182

		PAGE
	The Stranger	183
	Betrayal	184
	The Cage	185
	The Revenant	186
	Music	188
	The Remonstrance	189
	Nocturne	191
	The Exile	192
	The Unchanging	193
	Invocation	194
	Eyes	195
	Life	196
	The Disguise	197
	Vain Questioning	199
	Vigil	200
	The Old Men	201
	The Dreamer	202
	Motley	203
	The Marionettes	206
	To E. T.: 1917	208
	April Moon	209
	The Fool's Song	210
	Clear Eyes	211
	Dust to Dust	212
	The Three Strangers	213
	Alexander	214
	The Reawakening	216
	The Vacant Day	217
	The Flight	218
	For All the Grief	219
	The Scribe	220
	Fare Well	222