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"Here lies a most beautiful lady, Light of step and heart was she; I think she was the most beautiful lady That ever was in the West Country."
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Walter de la Mare
Walter de la Mare
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Walter John de la Mare was an English poet, short story writer and novelist, creating works for children and writing the poem "The Listeners". He wrote psychological horror short fiction, including "Seaton's Aunt", "The Green Room" and "All Hallows". In 1921, Mare's novel Memoirs of a Midget won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction, and his post-war Collected Stories for Children won th
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"‘Who knocks?’ ‘I, who was beautiful, Beyond all dreams to restore, I from the roots of the dark thorn am hither, And knock on the door.’"
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"A harvest mouse goes scampering by, With silver claws and silver eye; And moveless fish in the water gleam, By silver reeds in a silver stream."
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"Its a very odd thing— As odd as can be— That whatever Miss T. eats Turns into Miss T."
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"Some one came knocking At my wee, small door; Some one came knocking, I’m sure—sure—sure."
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"Do diddle di do, Poor Jim Jay Got stuck fast In Yesterday."
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"For beauty with sorrow Is a burden hard to be borne: The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there; That music, remote, forlorn."
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"Softly along the road of evening, In a twilight dim with rose, Wrinkled with age, and drenched with dew Old Nod, the shepherd, goes."
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"Bang! Now the animal Is dead and dumb and done. Nevermore to peep again, creep again, leap again, Eat or sleep or drink again, oh, what fun!"
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"Wonderful lovely there she sat, Singing the night away, All in the solitudinous sea Of that there lonely bay."
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"His are the quiet steeps of dreamland, The waters of no-more-pain; His ram’s bell rings ‘neath an arch of stars, “Rest, rest, and rest again.”"
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"Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour—let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till to delight Thou hast paid thy utmost blessing."
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