The Listeners and Other Poems

By Walter de la Mare

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Dec 2, 2019
• ISBN: 4057664598561

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Walter De la Mare

The Listeners and Other Poems

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THE THREE CHERRY TREES

OLD SUSAN

OLD BEN

MISS LOO

THE TAILOR

MARTHA

THE SLEEPER

THE KEYS OF MORNING

RACHEL

ALONE

THE BELLS

THE SCARECROW

NOD

THE BINDWEED

WINTER

THERE BLOOMS NO BUD IN MAY

NOON AND NIGHT FLOWER

ESTRANGED

THE TIRED CUPID

DREAMS

FAITHLESS

THE SHADE

BE ANGRY NOW NO MORE

SPRING

EXILE

WHERE?

MUSIC UNHEARD

ALL THAT'S PAST

WHEN THE ROSE IS FADED

SLEEP

THE STRANGER

NEVER MORE, SAILOR

THE WITCH

ARABIA

THE MOUNTAINS

QUEEN DJENIRA

NEVER-TO-BE

THE DARK CHATEAU

THE DWELLING-PLACE

THE LISTENERS

TIME PASSES

BEWARE!

THE JOURNEY

HAUNTED

SILENCE

WINTER DUSK

AGES AGO

HOME

THE GHOST

AN EPITAPH

'THE HAWTHORN HATH A DEATHLY SMELL'

THE THREE CHERRY TREES

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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.

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OLD SUSAN

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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 candle flame

In the wind that through the window came.