Potential Titles: Walter de la Mare

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Charmed by that siren lay - Walter de la Mare "Alexander"

Break out of the briar's boughs - Walter de la Mare "All That's Past"

When the March winds wake - Walter de la Mare "All That's Past"

Every drop is as wise as Solomon - Walter de la Mare "All That's Past"

Tales told in dim Eden - Walter de la Mare "All That's Past"

Flowered frost congeals - Walter de la Mare "Alone"

The fox howls from his frozen lair - Walter de la Mare "Alone"

Wild bee hung in the hyacinth bell - Walter de la Mare "Alone"

My candle a silent fire - Walter de la Mare "Alone"

Warbled sweetly strange enchanted words - Walter de la Mare "As Lucy Went a-Walking"

The mistletoe with globes of sheenless grey - Walter de la Mare "Before Dawn"

The holly mid ten thousand thorns - Walter de la Mare "Before Dawn"

Burning stars in darkness of the snow - Walter de la Mare "Before Dawn"

A dusk where one dim lamp burns - Walter de la Mare "Before Dawn"

Her flowers of glamourie spilled - Walter de la Mare "Beware!"

Night with her darkened caravans - Walter de la Mare "Beware!"

Fields of stars that strangely stir - Walter de la Mare "Beware!"

Fox and adder and weasel know - Walter de la Mare "Bewitched"

Made me a changeling to my own - Walter de la Mare "Bewitched"

Of salt billow was her birth - Walter de la Mare "The Blind Boy"

Where the bluebells and the wind are - Walter de la Mare "Bluebells"

Where the primrose and the dew are - Walter de la Mare "Bluebells"

These stones by time in ruin laid - Walter de la Mare "The Corner Stone"

Crouched listening in the darkness - Walter de la Mare "Cumberland"

Silence, like a billow, drowned - Walter de la Mare "Cumberland"

Mute shadows creeping slow - Walter de la Mare "The Dark House"

Some minutest atom shake - Walter de la Mare "The Dark House"

Some fretting ruin make - Walter de la Mare "The Dark House"

Take the far stars for fruit - Walter de la Mare "The Disguise"

While the ghosts keep tryst - Walter de la Mare "The Disguise"

Only the robin perched on a thorn - Walter de la Mare "Down-Adown-Derry"

Ice where the lily bloomed - Walter de la Mare "Down-Adown-Derry"

Whispering shades on Lethe's shore - Walter de la Mare "The Dreamer"

No trophy in my hands - Walter de la Mare "The Dreamer"

Murderess of all ecstasies - Walter de la Mare "Dust to Dust"

By Babylon's river languishing - Walter de la Mare "Dust to Dust"

Mute shadows creeping slow - Walter de la Mare "The Empty House"

Cleaving the skies with an echoing cry - Walter de la Mare "The Enchanted Hill"

With secret symbol of line and word - Walter de la Mare "The Enchanted Hill"

Beneath the dark's ensilvered arch - Walter de la Mare "The Enchanted Hill"

Iron pin and emerald larch - Walter de la Mare "The Enchanted Hill"

In dells of rose and meadowsweet - Walter de la Mare "The Enchanted Hill"

In mazed dances the fairies flit - Walter de la Mare "The Enchanted Hill"

A mist on faint winds borne - Walter de la Mare "The Enchanted Hill"

Morning enshrines the empty hill - Walter de la Mare "The Enchanted Hill"

Divide the seer from the seen - Walter de la Mare "Eyes"

And moonbeams weave a crown - Walter de la Mare "The Flight"

In the hollow arch of space - Walter de la Mare "The Flight"

The Pleiads seven stand watch - Walter de la Mare "The Flight"

Where life's shadows pass - Walter de la Mare "The Fool's Song"

Doles out Nevers and Nots - Walter de la Mare "The Fool's Song"

To creep from out the silent skies - Walter de la Mare "Full Moon"

From the roots of the dark thorn - Walter de la Mare "The Ghost"

When echo lurks by the waters - Walter de la Mare "The Ghost"

In chaos of vacancy shone - Walter de la Mare "The Ghost"

The dangers of the dark engage - Walter de la Mare "Happy England"

Upon hills of thyme and heather - Walter de la Mare "Happy, Happy It Is To Be"

At the hives of his tame bees - Walter de la Mare "The Honey Robbers"

Edging across the twilight air - Walter de la Mare "The Honey Robbers"

Thieves of a guise remotely fair - Walter de la Mare "The Honey Robbers"

Beneath the branches of the moon - Walter de la Mare "The Horn"

That bowed down like barley - Walter de la Mare "I Saw Three Witches"

That mocked the poor sparrows - Walter de la Mare "I Saw Three Witches"

Parrots of sapphire and sulphur and amber - Walter de la Mare "The Isle of Lone"

Snared young foxes in the dells - Walter de la Mare "The Isle of Lone"

From the hiding-place of memory - Walter de la Mare "The Journey"

Sad with the echo of their reproaches - Walter de la Mare "The Journey"

Knocking on the moonlit door - Walter de la Mare "The Listeners"

Pinned up sharp in the ghost of a shawl - Walter de la Mare "The Little Creature"

As soon as dark's dreams begin - Walter de la Mare "The Little Creature"

Snared is my heart in a nightmare's gin - Walter de la Mare "The Little Creature"

And the horned snail leaves home - Walter de la Mare "The Little Green Orchard"

All but the silence gone - Walter de la Mare "The Little Green Orchard"

A night of stars and snow - Walter de la Mare "The Little Salamander: To Margot"

The wild fires of frost - Walter de la Mare "The Little Salamander: To Margot"

The wild fires of frost shall light - Walter de la Mare "The Little Salamander"

Dance burning through the night - Walter de la Mare "The Little Salamander: To Margot"

Three and thirty birds there stood - Walter de la Mare "Melmillo"

And the wind where nothing is - Walter de la Mare "The Mermaids"

Deaf to the hidden bells - Walter de la Mare "The Mermaids"

What's your gold compared with mine? - Walter de la Mare "The Midden's Song"

One last candle burning low - Walter de la Mare "Mistletoe"

Mocking the dark with ecstasies - Walter de la Mare "Mistress Fell"

Wafts on her plumes like mist - Walter de la Mare "The Moth"

Swirls and sways to her strange tryst - Walter de la Mare "The Moth"

Empty scene of water and willow - Walter de la Mare "Motley"

And bear me out of the dark - Walter de la Mare "Mrs. Grundy"

Forgetting my pitiless banishment - Walter de la Mare "Mrs. Grundy"

Poison thy mouth with deviltries - Walter de la Mare "Mrs. Grundy"

Whose beauty dims my waking eyes - Walter de la Mare "Music"

Rapt in strange dreams burns - Walter de la Mare "Music"

With solemn echoing stirs - Walter de la Mare "Music"

Her flowers in vision flame - Walter de la Mare "Music"

This haunt of brooding dust - Walter de la Mare "Music"

Utter their hollow speech - Walter de la Mare "Nightfall"

Rapt in irradiant reverie - Walter de la Mare "Nightfall"

And in the zenith silver music wake - Walter de la Mare "Nightfall"

That shallow pool of day - Walter de la Mare "Nightfall"

The coursers of the dark stamp down - Walter de la Mare "Nightfall"

In the zenith silver music - Walter de la Mare "Nightfall"

The shining footsteps of the moon - Walter de la Mare "Nocturne"

Their fleeces charged with gold - Walter de la Mare "Nod"

Outnumber a noon's roses - Walter de la Mare "Nod"

The quiet steeps of dreamland - Walter de la Mare "Nod"

Out from the elm-tree's noonday shadow - Walter de la Mare "Off the Ground"

Seven fine churches and five old mills - Walter de la Mare "Off the Ground"

Till they take this changeling creature - Walter de la Mare "Peak and Puke"

Him they stole with spells and charms - Walter de la Mare "Peak and Puke"

Like a phantom through the glades - Walter de la Mare "The Quarry"

In the venomed yew tree - Walter de la Mare "The Quiet Enemy"

Mists to muffle midnight tide - Walter de la Mare "The Quiet Enemy"

Hold ajar the wicket gate - Walter de la Mare "The Quiet Enemy"

And wait patient treacherous time away - Walter de la Mare "The Quiet Enemy"

And set a careless mind aflame - Walter de la Mare "The Remonstrance"

All longing in safe banishment - Walter de la Mare "The Remonstrance"

Time's cold had closed my heart about - Walter de la Mare "The Remonstrance"

In flame of candle and hearth - Walter de la Mare "The Revenant"

Of unforgottenness a bitter draught - Walter de la Mare "The Revenant"

A strange riddle both did share - Walter de la Mare "The Riddlers"

Perched all upon a sweetbriar bush - Walter de la Mare "The Riddlers"

When rocked in starry nest - Walter de la Mare "The Riddlers"

To where Sirius barks behind huge Orion - Walter de la Mare "The Ride-by-Nights"

Surge pell-mell down the Milky Way - Walter de la Mare "The Ride-by-Nights"

The cricket shrills from stone to stone - Walter de la Mare "The Ruin"

From the clock popped the cuckoo - Walter de la Mare "Sam's Three Wishes; or Life's Little Whirligig"

The pixy-pears burn in yon hawthorn tree - Walter de la Mare "Sam's Three Wishes; or Life's Little Whirligig"

Hear the thrushes all mocking him - Walter de la Mare "Sam's Three Wishes; or Life's Little Whirligig"

Under the elm trees' lengthening shadow - Walter de la Mare "Sam's Three Wishes; or Life's Little Whirligig"

And scan the skies for crows - Walter de la Mare "The Scarecrow"

My worn reeds broken - Walter de la Mare "The Scribe"

Shrill evensong the cricket sings - Walter de la Mare "Sleeping Beauty"

An April bud on winter-haunted trees - Walter de la Mare "Sleeping Beauty"

Singing round the root - Walter de la Mare "Sleepyhead"

To sing of buttercups and dew - Walter de la Mare "Sleepyhead"

All in an icy quiet, forlorn - Walter de la Mare "Snow"

A robin shrills his lonely tune - Walter de la Mare "Snow"

From her dark-gnarled yew-tree lair - Walter de la Mare "Snow"

The cricket whistling while the dewdrops fall - Walter de la Mare "Some One"

Showed in dreams to me - Walter de la Mare "The Song of Soldiers"

Crying his sorceries shrill and clear - Walter de la Mare "Sorcery"

While the sweet swallow bends her wings - Walter de la Mare "Sorcery"

Seek not the face of Pan to see - Walter de la Mare "Sorcery"

His ax shone keen and grey - Walter de la Mare "Sorcery"

Only Pan singing sweet - Walter de la Mare "Sorcery"

The soundless mansion of the sun - Walter de la Mare "Sotto Voce"

Molten glass from furnace run - Walter de la Mare "Sotto Voce"

And the flower of the gorse burned on - Walter de la Mare "Sotto Voce"

And his name was Dream - Walter de la Mare "The Stranger"

Not a whisper comes again - Walter de la Mare "The Stranger"

Dappled with the moon's beam - Walter de la Mare "The Stranger"

The fruit that makes men wise - Walter de la Mare "The Stranger"

With fire in his skull for torch - Walter de la Mare "Sunk Lyonesse"

Whose marble flowers bloom - Walter de la Mare "Sunk Lyonesse"

Their carver with heart of stone - Walter de la Mare "Sunk Lyonesse"

Dark-spiked rosemary and myrrh - Walter de la Mare "The Sunken Garden"

Secret herbs their spices shower - Walter de la Mare "The Sunken Garden"

All her sorrows, bitter rue - Walter de la Mare "The Sunken Garden"

Latticed from the moon's beams - Walter de la Mare "The Sunken Garden"

They told me Pan was dead - Walter de la Mare "They Told Me"

Where the grey elder-thickets hang - Walter de la Mare "They Told Me"

My soul had charged with sorcery - Walter de la Mare "They Told Me"

The primrose sets the seal - Walter de la Mare "They Told Me"

Tears of an antique bitterness - Walter de la Mare "They Told Me"

A white lily with seven blooms thereon - Walter de la Mare "The Three Beggars"

Out of earth's vast unknown - Walter de la Mare "The Titmouse"

The primroses scattered by April - Walter de la Mare "The Truants"

The albatross lone on the spray - Walter de la Mare "The Truants"

Flee into some forgotten night - Walter de la Mare "The Tryst"

A music wistful for the sea-nymph's sake - Walter de la Mare "The Tryst"

In Time's smallest clock's minutest beat - Walter de la Mare "The Tryst"

Where in to sing love's requiem - Walter de la Mare "The Tryst"

Take the far stars for fruit - Walter de la Mare "The Tryst"

While the ghosts keep tryst - Walter de la Mare "The Tryst"

Those orchards mute of song - Walter de la Mare "Two Houses"

Shadowing the dizzied street - Walter de la Mare "The Two Houses"

In nodding cavalcade advancing - Walter de la Mare "The Unchanging"

Their unearthly scattered talk - Walter de la Mare "The Unfinished Dream"

In translucent shafts of sunshine - Walter de la Mare "The Unfinished Dream"

Inwoven of moonbeams and foam - Walter de la Mare "The Unfinished Dream"

In unknown regions astray - Walter de la Mare "The Unfinished Dream"

Stealing soft enchantment from their eyes - Walter de la Mare "The Unfinished Dream"

A waft of flocking linnets - Walter de la Mare "The Unfinished Dream"

The porch dust-still, vine-wreathed - Walter de la Mare "The Unfinished Dream"

Steadfast refuge from a fickle heart - Walter de la Mare "Vain Questioning"

The bright-heeled constellations - Walter de la Mare "Voices"

Spinning the guileless hours away - Walter de la Mare "Voices"

Watching in the gathering twilight - Walter de la Mare "Voices"

Wide are the meadows of night - Walter de la Mare "Wanderers"

Through the dusk with muffled bell - Walter de la Mare "The World of Dream"

Night's elfin lanterns burn and gleam - Walter de la Mare "The World of Dream"

Turns away from the whispering shore - Walter de la Mare "The World of Dream"


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