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by Walter de la Mare

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Title: Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes
Volume II.

Author: Walter de la Mare

Release Date: April 14, 2004 [EBook #12032]

Language: English

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COLLECTED POEMS

1901-1918

BY

WALTER DE LA MARE

IN TWO VOLUMES

VOL. II

1920

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CONTENTS

SONGS OF CHILDHOOD: 1901

TO JILL--
SLEEPYHEAD
BLUEBELLS
LOVELOCKS
TARTARY
THE BUCKLE
THE HARE
BUNCHES OF GRAPES
JOHN MOULDY
THE FLY
SONG
I SAW THREE WITCHES
THE SILVER PENNY
THE RAINBOW
THE FAIRIES DANCING
REVERIE
THE THREE BEGGARS
THE DWARF
ALULVAN
THE PEDLAR
THE OGRE
DAME HICKORY
THE PILGRIM
THE GAGE
AS LUCY WENT A-WALKING
THE ENGLISHMAN
THE PHANTOM
THE MILLER AND HIS SON
DOWN-ADOWN-DERRY
THE SUPPER
THE ISLE OF LONE
SLEEPING BEAUTY
THE HORN
CAPTAIN LEAN
THE PORTRAIT OF A WARRIOR
HAUNTED
THE RAVEN'S TOMB
THE CHRISTENING
THE FUNERAL
THE MOTHER BIRD
THE CHILD IN THE STORY GOES TO BED
THE LAMPLIGHTER
I MET AT EVE
LULLABY
ENVOI

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SONGS OF CHILDHOOD: 1901

TO JILL

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SLEEPYHEAD

As I lay awake in the white moonlight,
I heard a faint singing in the wood,
"Out of bed,
Sleepyhead,
Put your white foot, now;
Here are we
Beneath the tree
Singing round the root now."

I looked out of window, in the white moonlight,
The leaves were like snow in the wood--
"Come away,
Child, and play
Light with the gnomies;
In a mound,
Green and round,
That's where their home is."

"Honey sweet,
Curds to eat,
Cream and frumenty,
Shells and beads,
Poppy