The Listeners and Other Poems
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About This Book
This selection of Walter de la Mare's finest dark poems -- many with fantasy and supernatural themes -- draws from such sources as 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. Included are "The Dark Chateau," "The Witch," "The Ghost," and more.
Chapters (143)(click to expand)
- THE LISTENERS AND OTHER POEMS
- CONTENTS
- THE THREE CHERRY TREES
- OLD SUSAN
- OLD BEN
- MISS LOO
- THE TAILOR
- MARTHA
- THE SLEEPER
- THE KEYS OF MORNING
- RACHEL
- ALONE
- THE BELLS
- THE SCARECROW
- NOD
- THE BINDWEED
- WINTER
- THERE BLOOMS NO BUD IN MAY
- NOON AND NIGHT FLOWER
- ESTRANGED
- THE TIRED CUPID
- DREAMS
- FAITHLESS
- THE SHADE
- BE ANGRY NOW NO MORE
- SPRING
- EXILE
- WHERE?
- MUSIC UNHEARD
- ALL THAT'S PAST
- WHEN THE ROSE IS FADED
- SLEEP
- THE STRANGER
- NEVER MORE, SAILOR
- THE WITCH
- ARABIA
- THE MOUNTAINS
- QUEEN DJENIRA
- NEVER-TO-BE
- THE DARK CHATEAU
- THE DWELLING-PLACE
- THE LISTENERS
- TIME PASSES
- BEWARE!
- THE JOURNEY
- HAUNTED
- SILENCE
- WINTER DUSK
- AGES AGO
- HOME
- THE GHOST
- AN EPITAPH
- 'THE HAWTHORN HATH A DEATHLY SMELL'
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