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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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  ''All but blind
In his chambered hole
Gropes for worms
The four-clawed Mole.''
Walter De La Mare (1873-1956), British poet. All but Blind (l. 1-4). PDV. Piping down the Valleys Wild; Poetry for the Young of All Ages. Nancy La...
 
  ''So, blind to Someone
I must be.''
Walter De La Mare (1873-1956), British poet. All but Blind (l. 15-16). PDV. Piping down the Valleys Wild; Poetry for the Young of All Ages. Nancy ...
 
  ''We wake and whisper awhile,
But, the day gone by,
Silence and sleep like fields
Of amaranth lie.''
Walter De La Mare (1873-1956), British poet. All That's Past (l. 21-24). OAEL-2. Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Frank Ke...
 
  ''Oh, no man knows
Through what wild centuries
Roves back the rose.''
Walter De La Mare (1873-1956), British poet. All That's Past (l. 7-8). OAEL-2. Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Frank Kerm...
 
  ''"A bumpity ride in a wagon of hay
For me," says Jane.''
Walter De La Mare (1873-1956), British poet. Bunches of Grapes (l. 11-12). OxBChV. Oxford Book of Children's Verse, The. Iona Opie and Peter Opie,...
 
  ''"Bunches of grapes," says Timothy;
"Pomegranates pink," says Elaine;
"A junket of cream and a cranberry tart."''
Walter De La Mare (1873-1956), British poet. Bunches of Grapes (l. 1-3). OxBChV. Oxford Book of Children's Verse, The. Iona Opie and Peter Opie, e...
 
  ''But beauty vanishes; beauty passes;
However rare—rare it be;
And when I crumble, who will remember
This lady of the West Country?''
Walter De La Mare (1873-1956), British poet. Here lies a most beautiful lady (l. 5-8). OBEV. Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Art...
 
  ''Do diddle di do,
Poor Jim Jay
Got stuck fast
In Yesterday.''
Walter De La Mare (1873-1956), British poet. Jim Jay (l. 1-4). SD. Sprints and Distances; Sports in Poetry and the Poetry in Sport. Lillian Morris...
 
  ''It's a very odd thing—
As odd as can be—
That whatever Miss T. eats
Turns into Miss T.;''
Walter De La Mare (1873-1956), British poet. Miss T. (l. 1-4). FaBoBe. Family Book of Best Loved Poems, The. David L. George, ed. (1952) Doubleday...
 
  '''What is the world, O soldiers?
It is I,
I, this incessant snow,
This northern sky;''
Walter De La Mare (1873-1956), British poet. Napoleon (l. 1-4). NOBE. New Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1950. Helen Gardner, ed. (1972) ...
 

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