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Walter de la Mare's Poetry, by first line

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  • The Listeners
    "Is there anybody there?" said the Traveller,
    Knocking on the moonlit door
    36 lines, 11 comments
  • At Ease
    Most wounds can Time repair;
    But some are mortal -- these:
    12 lines
  • An Epitaph
    Here lies a most beautiful lady,
    Light of step and heart was she;
    8 lines, 2 comments
  • Old Susan
    When Susan's work was done, she'd sit
    With one fat guttering candle lit,
    24 lines
  • Sunk Lyonesse
    In sea-cold Lyonesse,
    When the Sabbath eve shafts down
    20 lines
  • A Song of Enchantment
    A song of Enchantment I sang me there,
    In a green-green wood, by waters fair,
    16 lines, 4 comments
  • The Keys of Morning
    While at her bedroom window once,
    Learning her task for school,
    40 lines
  • Why?
    Ever, ever
    Stir and shiver
    12 lines, 1 comment
  • Napoleon
    'What is the world, O soldiers?
    It is I:
    7 lines
  • Snow
    No breath of wind,
    No gleam of sun –
    24 lines
  • Bones
    Said Mr. Smith, “I really cannot
    Tell you, Dr. Jones—
    16 lines
  • Tom's Little Dog
    Tom told his dog called Tim to beg,
    And up at once he sat,
    11 lines
  • "How Sleep the Brave"
    Nay, nay, sweet England, do not grieve!
    Not one of these poor men who died
    12 lines, 1 comment
  • The Fool Rings His Bells
    Come, Death, I'd have a word with thee;
    And thou, poor Innocency;
    70 lines
  • Music
    When music sounds, gone is the earth I know,
    And all her lovely things even lovelier grow;
    12 lines
  • The Remonstrance
    I was at peace until you came
    And set a careless mind aflame;
    26 lines
  • The Song Of Shadows
    "Sweep thy faint strings, Musician,
    With thy long lean hand;
    16 lines, 1 comment
  • Good-bye
    The last of last words spoken is, Good-bye -
    The last dismantled flower in the weed-grown hedge,
    12 lines
  • Alone
    The abode of the nightingale is bare,
    Flowered frost congeals in the gelid air,
    17 lines, 1 comment
  • November
    There is wind where the rose was,
    Cold rain where sweet grass was,
    15 lines, 1 comment
  • The Song of Finis
    At the edge of All the Ages
    A Knight sate on his steed,
    16 lines
  • Winter
    Clouded with snow
    The cold winds blow,
    15 lines
  • All That's Past
    Very old are the woods;
    And the buds that break
    24 lines, 1 comment
  • Arabia
    Far are the shades of Arabia,
    Where the Princes ride at noon,
    24 lines, 5 comments
  • Fare Well
    When I lie where shades of darkness
    Shall no more assail mine eyes,
    24 lines, 2 comments
  • The Ghost
    Peace in thy hands,
    Peace in thine eyes,
    15 lines
  • The Huntsmen
    Three jolly gentlemen,
    In coats of red,
    12 lines
  • Nicholas Nye
    Thistle and darnell and dock grew there,
    And a bush, in the corner, of may,
    40 lines
  • When the Rose is Faded
    When the rose is faded,
    Memory may still dwell on
    16 lines, 1 comment
  • The Spirit of Air
    Coral and clear emerald,
    And amber from the sea,
    16 lines
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