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Title: Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes
Volume I.
Author: Walter de la Mare
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Language: English
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COLLECTED POEMS
1901-1918
BY
WALTER DE LA MARE
IN TWO VOLUMES
VOL. I
1920

CONTENTS
POEMS: 1906
LYRICAL POEMS--
SHADOW
UNREGARDING
THEY
TOLD ME
SORCERY
THE CHILDREN OF STARE
AGE

THE GLIMPSE
REMEMBRANCE
TREACHERY
IN VAIN

THE MIRACLE
KEEP INNOCENCY
THE PHANTOM

VOICES
THULE
THE BIRTHNIGHT: TO F.
THE
DEATH-DREAM
"WHERE IS THY VICTORY?"

FOREBODING
VAIN FINDING
NAPOLEON
ENGLAND

TRUCE
EVENING
NIGHT
THE UNIVERSE
GLORIA
MUNDI
IDLENESS
GOLIATH
CHARACTERS FROM SHAKESPEARE--
FALSTAFF

MACBETH
BANQUO
MERCUTIO
JULIET'S NURSE

IAGO
IMOGEN
POLONIUS
OPHELIA
HAMLET
SONNETS--
THE HAPPY ENCOUNTER
APRIL

SEA-MAGIC
THE MARKET-PLACE
ANATOMY

EVEN
IN THE GRAVE
BRIGHT LIFE
HUMANITY
VIRTUE
MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD--
REVERIE
THE
MASSACRE
ECHO
FEAR
THE MERMAIDS
MYSELF

AUTUMN
WINTER
ENVOI: TO MY MOTHER
THE LISTENERS: 1914
THE THREE CHERRY TREES
OLD SUSAN
OLD BEN

MISS LOO
THE TAILOR
MARTHA
THE SLEEPER

THE KEYS OF MORNING
RACHEL
ALONE
THE BELLS

THE SCARECROW
NOD
THE BINDWEED
WINTER

THERE BLOOMS NO BUD IN MAY
NOON AND NIGHT
FLOWER
ESTRANGED
THE TIRED CUPID
DREAMS

FAITHLESS
THE SHADE
BE ANGRY NOW NO MORE


EXILE
WHERE?
MUSIC UNHEARD
ALL THAT'S PAST

WHEN THE ROSE IS FADED
SLEEP
THE STRANGER

NEVER MORE SAILOR
ARABIA
THE MOUNTAINS

QUEEN DJENIRA
NEVER-TO-BE
THE DARK CHÂTEAU

THE DWELLING-PLACE
THE LISTENERS
TIME PASSES

BEWARE!
THE JOURNEY
HAUNTED
SILENCE

WINTER DUSK
THE GHOST
AN EPITAPH
"THE
HAWTHORN HATH A DEATHLY SMELL"
MOTLEY: 1918
THE LITTLE SALAMANDER
THE LINNET
THE SUNKEN
GARDEN
THE RIDDLERS
MOONLIGHT
THE BLIND
BOY
THE QUARRY
MRS. GRUNDY
THE TRYST

ALONE
THE EMPTY HOUSE
MISTRESS FELL
THE
GHOST
THE STRANGER
BETRAYAL
THE CAGE
THE
REVENANT
MUSIC
THE REMONSTRANCE
NOCTURNE

THE EXILE
THE UNCHANGING
INVOCATION

EYES

LIFE
THE DISGUISE
VAIN QUESTIONING
VIGIL

THE OLD MEN
THE DREAMER
MOTLEY
THE
MARIONETTES
TO E.T.: 1917
APRIL MOON
THE
FOOL'S SONG
CLEAR EYES
DUST TO DUST
THE
THREE STRANGERS
ALEXANDER
THE REAWAKENING

THE VACANT DAY
THE FLIGHT
FOR ALL THE GRIEF

THE SCRIBE
FARE WELL

POEMS: 1906
TO HENRY NEWBOLT

LYRICAL POEMS

THEY TOLD ME
They told me Pan was dead, but I
Oft marvelled who it was that sang

Down the green valleys languidly
Where the grey elder-thickets
hang.
Sometimes I thought it was a bird
My soul had charged with sorcery;

Sometimes it seemed my own heart heard
Inland the sorrow of the
sea.
But even where the primrose sets
The seal of her pale loveliness,
I
found amid the violets
Tears of an antique bitterness.
SORCERY
"What voice is that I hear
Crying across the pool?"
"It is the voice
of Pan you hear,
Crying his sorceries shrill and clear,
In the twilight
dim and cool."
"What song is it he sings,
Echoing from afar;
While the sweet
swallow bends her wings,
Filling the air with twitterings,
Beneath
the brightening star?"
The woodman answered me,
His faggot on his back:--
"Seek not the
face of Pan to see;
Flee from his clear note summoning thee
To
darkness deep and black!"
"He dwells in thickest shade,
Piping his notes forlorn
Of sorrow
never to be allayed;
Turn from his coverts sad
Of twilight unto
morn!"
The woodman passed away
Along the forest path;
His ax shone
keen and grey
In the last beams of day:
And all was still as death:--
Only Pan singing sweet
Out of Earth's fragrant shade;
I dreamed his

eyes to meet,
And found but shadow laid
Before my tired feet.
Comes no more dawn to me,
Nor bird of open skies.
Only his
woods' deep gloom I see
Till, at the end of all, shall rise,
Afar and
tranquilly,
Death's stretching sea.
THE CHILDREN OF STARE
Winter is fallen early
On the house of Stare;
Birds in reverberating
flocks
Haunt its ancestral box;
Bright are the plenteous berries
In
clusters in the air.
Still is the fountain's music,
The dark pool icy still,
Whereupon a
small and sanguine sun
Floats in a mirror on,
Into a West of
crimson,
From a South of daffodil.
'Tis strange to see young children
In such a wintry house;
Like
rabbits' on the frozen snow
Their tell-tale footprints go;
Their
laughter rings like timbrels
'Neath evening ominous:
Their small and heightened faces
Like wine-red winter buds;
Their
frolic bodies gentle as
Flakes in the air that pass,
Frail as the
twirling petal
From the briar of the woods.
Above them silence lours,
Still as an arctic sea;
Light fails; night
falls; the wintry moon
Glitters; the crocus soon
Will ope grey and
distracted
On earth's austerity:
Thick mystery, wild peril,
Law like an iron rod:--
Yet sport they on
in Spring's attire,
Each with his tiny fire
Blown to a core of ardour

By the awful breath of God.
AGE
This ugly old crone--

Every beauty she had
When a maid, when a

maid.
Her beautiful eyes,
Too youthful, too wise,
Seemed ever to
come
To so lightless a home,
Cold and dull as a stone.
And her
cheeks--who would guess
Cheeks cadaverous as this
Once with
colours were gay
As the flower on its spray?
Who would ever
believe
Aught could bring one to grieve
So much as to make
Lips
bent for love's sake
So thin and so grey?
O Youth, come away!

As she asks in her lone,
This old, desolate crone.
She loves us no
more;
She is too old to care
For the charms that of yore
Made her
body so fair.
Past repining, past care,
She lives but to bear
One or
two fleeting years
Earth's indifference: her tears
Have lost now their
heat;
Her hands and her feet
Now shake but to be
Shed as leaves
from a tree;
And her poor heart beats on
Like a sea--the storm gone.
THE GLIMPSE
Art thou asleep?