Collected Poems, 1901-1918/Volume 2
COLLECTED POEMS
COLLECTED POEMS
1901-1918
BY
WALTER DE LA MARE
IN TWO VOLUMES
VOL. II
NEW YORK
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
1920
Copyright, 1920
BY
Henry Holt and Company
CONTENTS
SONGS OF CHILDHOOD: 1901
| To Jill— | PAGE | |
| Sleepyhead | 3 | |
| Bluebells | 5 | |
| Lovelocks | 6 | |
| Tartary | 7 | |
| The Buckle | 9 | |
| The Hare | 10 | |
| Bunches of Grapes | 11 | |
| John Moudly | 12 | |
| The Fly | 13 | |
| Song | 14 | |
| I Saw Three Witches | 15 | |
| The Silver Penny | 17 | |
| The Rainbow | 18 | |
| The Fairies Dancing | 19 | |
| Reverie | 20 | |
| The Three Beggars | 22 | |
| The Dwarf | 24 | |
| Alulvan | 27 | |
| The Pedlar | 29 | |
| The Ogre | 32 | |
| Dame Hickory | 35 | |
| The Pilgrim | 37 | |
| The Gage | 41 | |
| As Lucy Went A-Walking | 45 | |
| The Englishman | 49 | |
| PAGE | ||
| The Phantom | 53 | |
| The Miller and His Son | 58 | |
| Down-Adown-Derry | 61 | |
| The Supper | 65 | |
| The Isle of Lone | 67 | |
| Sleeping Beauty | 72 | |
| The Horn | 73 | |
| Captain Lean | 74 | |
| The Portrait of a Warrior | 75 | |
| Haunted | 76 | |
| The Raven's Tomb | 77 | |
| The Christening | 78 | |
| The Funeral | 80 | |
| The Mother Bird | 81 | |
| The Child in the Story Goes to Bed | 82 | |
| The Lamplighter | 84 | |
| I Met at Eve | 86 | |
| Lullaby | 88 | |
| Envoi | 89 | |
PEACOCK PIE
A BOOK OF RHYMES
| Up and Down — | ||
| The Horseman | 95 | |
| Mrs. Earth | 96 | |
| Alas, Alack! | 97 | |
| Tired Tim | 98 | |
| Mima | 99 | |
| The Huntsmen | 100 | |
| The Bandog | 101 | |
| I Can't Abear | 102 | |
| The Dunce | 103 | |
| Chicken | 104 | |
| PAGE | ||
| Some One | 105 | |
| Bread and Cherries | 106 | |
| Old Shellover | 107 | |
| Hapless | 108 | |
| The Little Bird | 109 | |
| Cake and Sack | 110 | |
| The Ship of Rio | 111 | |
| Jim Jay | 112 | |
| Miss T. | 114 | |
| The Cupboard | 115 | |
| The Barber's | 116 | |
| Hide and Seek | 117 | |
| Boys and Girls— | ||
| Then | 121 | |
| The Window | 122 | |
| Poor Henry | 123 | |
| Full Moon | 124 | |
| The Bookworm | 125 | |
| The Quartette | 126 | |
| Mistletoe | 127 | |
| The Lost Shoe | 128 | |
| The Truants | 130 | |
| Four Queer Tales— | ||
| Berries | 133 | |
| Off the Ground | 136 | |
| The Thief at Robin's Castle | 136 | |
| Sam's Three Wishes; or Life's Little Whirligig | 140 | |
| Places and People— | ||
| A Widow's Weeds | 157 | |
| "Sooeep!" | 158 | |
| PAGE | ||
| Mrs. Macqueen | 159 | |
| The Little Green Orchard | 160 | |
| Poor "Miss 7" | 162 | |
| Sam | 164 | |
| Andy Battle | 166 | |
| The Old Soldier | 168 | |
| The Picture | 169 | |
| The Little Old Cupid | 170 | |
| King David | 171 | |
| The Old House | 172 | |
| Beasts — | ||
| Unstooping | 175 | |
| All But Blind | 176 | |
| Nicholas Nye | 177 | |
| The Pigs and the Charcoal-Burner | 179 | |
| Five Eyes | 180 | |
| Grim | 181 | |
| Summer Evening | 182 | |
| Earth Folk | 183 | |
| Witches and Fairies — | ||
| At the Keyhole | 187 | |
| The Old Stone House | 188 | |
| The Ruin | 189 | |
| The Ride-by-Nights | 190 | |
| Peak and Puke | 191 | |
| The Changeling | 192 | |
| The Mocking Fairy | 194 | |
| Bewitched | 195 | |
| The Honey Robbers | 197 | |
| Longlegs | 199 | |
| Melmillo | 200 | |
| Earth and Air — | PAGE | |
| Trees | 203 | |
| Silver | 204 | |
| Nobody Knows | 205 | |
| Wanderers | 206 | |
| Many a Mickle | 207 | |
| Will Ever? | 208 | |
| Songs — | ||
| The Song of the Secret | 211 | |
| The Song of Soldiers | 212 | |
| The Bees' Song | 213 | |
| A Song of Enchantment | 214 | |
| Dream-Song | 215 | |
| The Song of Shadows | 216 | |
| The Song of the Mad Prince | 217 | |
| The Song of Finis | 218 | |
SONGS OF CHILDHOOD: 1901
TO JILL