Collected poems, 1901-1918 (Vol. 2)

COLLECTED POEMS

1901-1918

BY

WALTER DE LA MARE

IN TWO VOLUMES

VOL. II

NEW YORK

HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY

1920

Copyright, 1920

BY

Henry Holt and Company

CONTENTS

SONGS OF CHILDHOOD: 1901

To Jill—		PAGE
	Sleepyhead	3
	Bluebells	5
	Lovelocks	6
	Tartary	7
	The Buckle	9
	The Hare	10
	Bunches of Grapes	11
	John Moudly	12
	The Fly	13
	Song	14
	I Saw Three Witches	15
	The Silver Penny	17
	The Rainbow	18
	The Fairies Dancing	19
	Reverie	20
	The Three Beggars	22
	The Dwarf	24
	Alulvan	27
	The Pedlar	29
	The Ogre	32
	Dame Hickory	35
	The Pilgrim	37
	The Gage	41
	As Lucy Went A-Walking	45
	The Englishman	49

		PAGE
	The Phantom	53
	The Miller and His Son	58
	Down-Adown-Derry	61
	The Supper	65
	The Isle of Lone	67
	Sleeping Beauty	72
	The Horn	73
	Captain Lean	74
	The Portrait of a Warrior	75
	Haunted	76
	The Raven's Tomb	77
	The Christening	78
	The Funeral	80
	The Mother Bird	81
	The Child in the Story Goes to Bed	82
	The Lamplighter	84
	I Met at Eve	86
	Lullaby	88
	Envoi	89

PEACOCK PIE

A BOOK OF RHYMES

Up and Down —
	The Horseman	95
	Mrs. Earth	96
	Alas, Alack!	97
	Tired Tim	98
	Mima	99
	The Huntsmen	100
	The Bandog	101
	I Can't Abear	102
	The Dunce	103
	Chicken	104

		PAGE
	Some One	105
	Bread and Cherries	106
	Old Shellover	107
	Hapless	108
	The Little Bird	109
	Cake and Sack	110
	The Ship of Rio	111
	Jim Jay	112
	Miss T.	114
	The Cupboard	115
	The Barber's	116
	Hide and Seek	117
Boys and Girls—
	Then	121
	The Window	122
	Poor Henry	123
	Full Moon	124
	The Bookworm	125
	The Quartette	126
	Mistletoe	127
	The Lost Shoe	128
	The Truants	130
Four Queer Tales—
	Berries	133
	Off the Ground	136
	The Thief at Robin's Castle	136
	Sam's Three Wishes; or Life's Little Whirligig	140
Places and People—
	A Widow's Weeds	157
	"Sooeep!"	158

		PAGE
	Mrs. Macqueen	159
	The Little Green Orchard	160
	Poor "Miss 7"	162
	Sam	164
	Andy Battle	166
	The Old Soldier	168
	The Picture	169
	The Little Old Cupid	170
	King David	171
	The Old House	172
Beasts —
	Unstooping	175
	All But Blind	176
	Nicholas Nye	177
	The Pigs and the Charcoal-Burner	179
	Five Eyes	180
	Grim	181
	Summer Evening	182
	Earth Folk	183
Witches and Fairies —
	At the Keyhole	187
	The Old Stone House	188
	The Ruin	189
	The Ride-by-Nights	190
	Peak and Puke	191
	The Changeling	192
	The Mocking Fairy	194
	Bewitched	195
	The Honey Robbers	197
	Longlegs	199
	Melmillo	200

Earth and Air —		PAGE
	Trees	203
	Silver	204
	Nobody Knows	205
	Wanderers	206
	Many a Mickle	207
	Will Ever?	208
Songs —
	The Song of the Secret	211
	The Song of Soldiers	212
	The Bees' Song	213
	A Song of Enchantment	214
	Dream-Song	215
	The Song of Shadows	216
	The Song of the Mad Prince	217
	The Song of Finis	218

SONGS OF CHILDHOOD: 1901

TO JILL

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