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    Peacock Pie, a Book of Rhymes
    Peacock Pie, a Book of Rhymes
    Peacock Pie, a Book of Rhymes
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    Peacock Pie, a Book of Rhymes

    By Walter De la Mare

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJan 1, 1958
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      There are some lovely little poems in this collection by Walter de la Mare. I would say they are not 'happy happy' poems but rather wistful, thoughtul, enchanting, sometimes filled with melancholy and mystery, often deeper than they may first appear. The Truants features the children 'magic hath stolen away', Wanderers is about the movement of the planets, 'Poor Miss 7' lives lone and alone and Miss T has a strange metabolism 'whatever Miss T eats turns into Miss T'. Then there's the odd Hapless, Tired Tim and The Dunce and the mysterious 'Some one' a poem in a similar vain to my favourite Walter de la Mare poem 'The Listeners'.

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    Title: Peacock Pie, A Book of Rhymes

    Author: Walter de la Mare

    Posting Date: May 13, 2009 [EBook #3753] Release Date: February, 2003 First Posted: August 21, 2001

    Language: English

    *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PEACOCK PIE, A BOOK OF RHYMES ***

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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. EARTH

      Mrs. Earth makes silver black,

         Mrs. Earth makes iron red

      But Mrs. Earth can not stain gold,

         Nor ruby red.

      Mrs. earth the slenderest bone

         Whitens in her bosom cold,

      But Mrs. Earth can change my dreams

         No more than ruby or gold.

      Mrs. Earth and Mr. Sun

         Can tan my skin, and tire my toes,

      But all that I'm thinking of, ever shall think,

         Why, either knows.

    ALAS, ALACK!

      Ann, Ann!

         Come! Quick as you can!

      There's a fish that talks

         In the frying-pan.

      Out of the fat,

         As clear as glass,

      He put up his mouth

         And moaned 'Alas!'

      Oh, most mournful,

         'Alas, alack!'

      Then turned to his sizzling,

         And sank him back.

    TIRED TIM

      Poor Tired Tim! It's sad for him.

      He lags the long bright morning through,

      Ever so tired of nothing to do;

      He moons and mopes the livelong day,

      Nothing to think about, nothing to say;

      Up to bed with his candle to creep,

      Too tired to yawn, too tired to sleep:

      Poor Tired Tim! It's sad for him.

    MIMA

      Jemima is my name,

         But oh, I have another;

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