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Walter de la Mare's Poetry, by title

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  • "As I was walking"
    As I was walking,
    Thyme sweet to my nose,
    27 lines
  • "How Sleep the Brave"
    Nay, nay, sweet England, do not grieve!
    Not one of these poor men who died
    12 lines, 1 comment
  • "One moment take thy rest"
    One moment take thy rest.
    Out of mere nought in space
    9 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
  • Alexander
    It was the Great Alexander,
    Capped with a golden helm,
    28 lines
  • All But Blind
    All but blind
    In his chambered hole,
    13 lines
  • All That's Past
    Very old are the woods;
    And the buds that break
    24 lines, 1 comment
  • Alone
    The abode of the nightingale is bare,
    Flowered frost congeals in the gelid air,
    17 lines, 1 comment
  • An Epitaph
    Here lies a most beautiful lady,
    Light of step and heart was she;
    8 lines, 2 comments
  • Arabia
    Far are the shades of Arabia,
    Where the Princes ride at noon,
    24 lines, 5 comments
  • At Ease
    Most wounds can Time repair;
    But some are mortal -- these:
    12 lines
  • Bones
    Said Mr. Smith, “I really cannot
    Tell you, Dr. Jones—
    16 lines
  • Brueghel's Winter
    Jagg'd mountain peaks and skies ice-green
    Wall in the wild, cold scene below.
    20 lines
  • Comfort
    As I mused by the hearthside,
    Puss said to me;
    24 lines
  • Fare Well
    When I lie where shades of darkness
    Shall no more assail mine eyes,
    24 lines, 2 comments
  • Full Moon
    One night as Dick lay half asleep,
    Into his drowsy eyes
    12 lines, 1 comment
  • Ghost
    'Who knocks? ' 'I, who was beautiful
    Beyond all dreams to restore,
    23 lines, 1 comment
  • Gloria Mundi
    Upon a bank, easeless with knobs of gold,
      Beneath a canopy of noonday smoke,
    61 lines
  • Good-bye
    The last of last words spoken is, Good-bye -
    The last dismantled flower in the weed-grown hedge,
    12 lines
  • Hi!
    Hi! Handsome hunting man,
    Fire your little gun,
    7 lines, 3 comments
  • I can't abear
    I can't abear a butcher,
    I can't abide his meat,
    9 lines
  • John Mouldy
    I spied John Mouldy in his celler,
    Deep down twenty steps of stone;
    18 lines, 1 comment
  • Martha
    Once, once upon a time....
    Over and over again,
    33 lines, 1 comment
  • Melmillo
    Three and thirty birds there stood
    In an elder in a wood;
    20 lines
  • Miss Loo
    When thin-strewn memory I look through,
    I see most clearly poor Miss Loo,
    28 lines
  • Miss T
    It's a very odd thing -
      As odd can be -
    16 lines, 1 comment
  • Mistletoe
    Sitting under the mistletoe
    (Pale-green, fairy mistletoe),
    14 lines
  • Moonlight
    The far moon maketh lovers wise
    In her pale beauty trembling down,
    8 lines
  • Mr Nobody
    I know a funny little man,
    As quiet as a mouse,
    25 lines, 2 comments
  • Mulla-Mulgars' Journey Song
    That one, alone,
    Who's dared and gone
    13 lines, 1 comment
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