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PEACOCK PIE A Book of Rhymes
by Walter de la Mare
'He told me his dreams. . . '
Isaac Watts
Table of Contents
UP AND DOWN
The Horseman?Up and Down?Mrs. Earth?Alas, Alack?Tired Tim?Mima?The Huntsmen?The Bandog?I Can't Abear?The Dunce?Chicken?Some One?Bread and Cherries?Old Shellover?Hapless?The Little Bird?Cake and Sack?The Ship of Rio?Tillie?Jim Jay?Miss T.?The Cupboard?The Barber's?Hide and Seek
BOYS AND GIRLS
Then?The Window?Poor Henry?Full Moon?The Bookworm?The Quartette?Mistletoe?The Lost Shoe?The Truants
THREE QUEER TALES
Berries?Off the Ground?The Thief at Robin's Castle
PLACES AND PEOPLE
A Widow's Weeds?'Sooeep!'?Mrs. MacQueen?The Little Green Orchard?Poor Miss 7?Sam?Andy Battle?The Old Soldier?The Picture?The Little Old Cupid?King David?The Old House
BEASTS
Unstooping?All But Blind?Nicholas Nye?The Pigs and The Charcoal Burner?Five Eyes?Grim?Tit for Tat?Summer Evening?Earth Folk
WITCHES AND FAIRIES
At the Keyhole?The Old Stone House?The Ruin?The Ride-by-Nights?Peak and Puke?The Changeling?The Mocking Fairy?Bewitched?The Honey Robbers?Longlegs?Melmillo
EARTH AND AIR
Trees?Silver?Nobody Knows?Wanderers?Many a Mickle?Will Ever?
SONGS
The Song of the Secret?The Song of Soldiers?The Bees' Song?A Song of Enchantment?Dream-Song?The Song of Shadows?The Song of the Mad prince?The Song of Finis
THE HORSEMAN
I heard a horseman
Ride over the hill;?The moon shone clear,?The night was still;?His helm was silver,
And pale was he;?And the horse he rode
Was of ivory.
UP AND DOWN
Down the Hill of Ludgate,
Up the Hill of Fleet,?To and fro and East and West
With people flows the street;?Even the King of England
On Temple Bar must beat?For leave to ride to Ludgate
Down the Hill of Fleet.
MRS.
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