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Title: The Listeners and Other Poems

Author: Walter de la Mare

Release Date: September 10, 2007 [eBook #22569]

Language: English

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THE LISTENERS

AND OTHER POEMS

by

WALTER DE LA MARE

[Illustration]

New York
Henry Holt and Company

The author's thanks for permission to reprint certain of the poems
included in this collection are due to the Editors of the _Saturday
Review_, the _Thrush_, the _Pall Mall Magazine_, the _Odd Volume_, the
_Lady's Realm_, the _English Review_, the _Westminster Gazette_, the
_Commonwealth_, and the _Nation_.

CONTENTS

PAGE

THE THREE CHERRY TREES 1

OLD SUSAN 3

OLD BEN 5

MISS LOO 7

THE TAILOR 9

MARTHA 10

THE SLEEPER 12

THE KEYS OF MORNING 14

RACHEL 16

ALONE 17

THE BELLS 19

THE SCARECROW 21

NOD 23

THE BINDWEED 25

WINTER 26

THERE BLOOMS NO BUD IN MAY 27

NOON AND NIGHT FLOWER 29

ESTRANGED 30

THE TIRED CUPID 31

DREAMS 32

FAITHLESS 33

THE SHADE 34

BE ANGRY NOW NO MORE 35

SPRING 36

EXILE 37

WHERE? 3