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    The Listeners and Other Poems
    The Listeners and Other Poems
    The Listeners and Other Poems
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    The Listeners and Other Poems

    By Walter De la Mare

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    Release dateApr 1, 2001
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      The Listeners and Other Poems - Walter De la Mare

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Listeners and Other Poems, by Walter de la Mare

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      Title: The Listeners and Other Poems

      Author: Walter de la Mare

      Release Date: September 10, 2007 [eBook #22569]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LISTENERS AND OTHER POEMS***

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      THE LISTENERS

      AND OTHER POEMS

      BY

      WALTER DE LA MARE

      NEW YORK

      HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY

      The author's thanks for permission to reprint certain of the poems included in this collection are due to the Editors of the Saturday Review, the Thrush, the Pall Mall Magazine, the Odd Volume, the Lady's Realm, the English Review, the Westminster Gazette, the Commonwealth, and the Nation.

      CONTENTS

      THE THREE CHERRY TREES

      There were three cherry trees once,

      Grew in a garden all shady;

      And there for delight of so gladsome a sight,

      Walked a most beautiful lady,

      Dreamed a most beautiful lady.

      Birds in those branches did sing,

      Blackbird and throstle and linnet,

      But she walking there was by far the most fair—

      Lovelier than all else within it,

      Blackbird and throstle and linnet.

      But blossoms to berries do come,

      All hanging on stalks light and slender,

      And one long summer's day charmed that lady away,

      With vows sweet and merry and tender;

      A lover with voice low and tender.

      Moss and lichen the green branches deck;

      Weeds nod in its paths green and shady:

      Yet a light footstep seems there to wander in dreams,

      The ghost of that beautiful lady,

      That happy and beautiful lady.

      OLD SUSAN

      When Susan's work was done she'd sit,

      With one fat guttering candle lit,

      And window opened wide to win

      The sweet night air to enter in;

      There, with a thumb to keep her place

      She'd read, with stern and wrinkled face,

      Her mild eyes gliding very slow

      Across the letters to and fro,

      While wagged the guttering

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