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Famous Walter de la Mare Quotes

“Once a man strays out of the common herd, he's more likely to meet wolves in the thickets than angels.”

Source: The Return

“But beauty vanishes; beauty passes;
However rare—rare it be;
And when I crumble, who will remember
This lady of the West Country?”

Walter de la Mare

An Epitaph.

“Slowly, silently, now the moon
Walks the night in her silver shoon.”

Walter de la Mare

Silver.

“After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts – like a Chinese nest of boxes – oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front – in our ancestors, back and back until…”

Walter de la Mare

Source: The Return

“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!”

Walter de la Mare

Hi!
Source: Rhymes and Verses: Collected Poems for Young People

“God has mercifully ordered that the human brain works slowly; first the blow, hours afterwards the bruise.”

Walter de la Mare

Source: The Return

Walter de la Mare Quotes about beauty

“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.”

Walter de la Mare

The Ghost.

“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.”

Walter de la Mare

An Epitaph.

“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.”

Walter de la Mare

The Old Summerhouse.

Walter de la Mare Quotes about the night

“Wonderful lovely there she sat,
Singing the night away,
All in the solitudinous sea
Of that there lonely bay.”

Walter de la Mare

Sam.

“A face peered. All the grey night
In chaos of vacancy shone;
Nought but vast sorrow was there—
The sweet cheat gone.”

Walter de la Mare

The Ghost.

“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.”

Walter de la Mare

Fare Well, st. 3 (1918).

Walter de la Mare Quotes

“Never the least stir made the listeners,
Though every word he spake
Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house
From the one man left awake:
Aye, they heard his foot upon the stirrup,
And the sound of iron on stone,
And how the silence surged softly backward,
When the plunging hoofs were gone.”

Walter de la Mare

The Listeners (1912)

“It's a very odd thing&mdas;
As odd as can be—
That whatever Miss T. eats
Turns into Miss T.”

Walter de la Mare

Miss T.

“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.””

Walter de la Mare

Nod.

“What is the world, O soldiers?
It is I,
I, this incessant snow,
This northern sky.”

Walter de la Mare

Napoleon.

“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.”

Walter de la Mare

Silver.

“Old Rover in his moss-greened house
Mumbles a bone, and barks at a mouse.”

Walter de la Mare

Summer Evening.

““Bunches of grapes,” says Timothy;
“Pomegranates pink,” says Elaine;
“A junket of cream and a cranberry tart
For me,” says Jane.”

Walter de la Mare

Bunches of Grapes.

“Oh, no man knows
Through what wild centuries
Roves back the rose.”

Walter de la Mare

All That's Past.

“So, blind to Someone
I must be.”

Walter de la Mare

All But Blind.

“"Tell them I came, and no one answered,
That I kept my word," he said.”

Walter de la Mare

The Listeners (1912)

“Poor tired Tim! It’s sad for him
He lags the long bright morning through,
Ever so tired of nothing to do.”

Walter de la Mare

Tired Tim.

“Three jolly huntsmen,
In coats of red,
Rode their horses
Up to bed.”

Walter de la Mare

The Huntsmen.

“Some one came knocking
At my wee, small door;
Some one came knocking,
I’m sure—sure—sure.”

Walter de la Mare

Some One Came Knocking.

“Softly along the road of evening,
In a twilight dim with rose,
Wrinkled with age, and drenched with dew
Old Nod, the shepherd, goes.”

Walter de la Mare

Nod.

“A bumpity ride in a wagon of hay”

Walter de la Mare

Bunches of Grapes.

“What lovely things
Thy hand hath made.”

Walter de la Mare

The Scribe.

“"Is anybody there?" said the Traveler,
Knocking on the moonlit door;
And his horse in the silence champed the grasses
Of the forest's ferny floor.”

Walter de la Mare

The Listeners (1912)

“All but blind
In his chambered hole
Gropes for worms
The four-clawed Mole.”

Walter de la Mare

All But Blind.

“Who said "Peacock Pie"?
The old king to the sparrow:
Who said "Crops are ripe"?
Rust to the harrow.

Who said, "Ay, mum's the word"?
Sexton to willow.
Who said, "Green dusk for dream?"
Moss for a pillow.

Who said, "All Time’s delight
Hath she for narrow bed;
Life’s troubled bubble broken"?—
That’s what I said.”

Walter de la Mare

The Song of the Mad Prince

“Dobbin at manger pulls his hay:
Gone is another summer’s day.”

Walter de la Mare

Summer Evening.

“We wake and whisper awhile,
But, the day gone by,
Silence and sleep like fields
Of amaranth lie.”

Walter de la Mare

All That's Past.

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