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As a poet de la Mare is often compared with Thomas Hardy and William Blake for their respective themes of mortality and visionary illumination. His greatest concern was the creation of a dreamlike tone implying a tangible but nonspecific transcendent reality.
- Arabia
- Dust to Dust
- The Spirit of Air
- Tarbury Steep
Far are the shades of Arabia, Where the Princes ride at noon, __‘Mid the verdurous vales and thickets, Under the ghost of the moon; And so dark is that vaulted purple Flowers in the forest rise __And toss into blossom ‘gainst the phantom stars Pale in the noonday skies. Sweet is the music of Arabia In my heart, when out of dreams __I still in the t...
Heavenly Archer, bend thy bow; Now the flame of life burns low, Youth is gone; I, too, would go. Even Fortune leads to this: Harsh or kind, at last she is Murderess of all ecstasies. Yet the spirit, dark, alone, Bound in sense, still hearkens on For tidings of a bliss foregone. Sleep is well for dreamless head, At no breath astonishèd, From the Gar...
Coral and clear emerald, And amber from the sea, Lilac-coloured amethyst, Chalcedony; The lovely Spirit of Air Floats on a cloud and doth ride, Clad in the beauties of earth __Like a bride. So doth she haunt me; and words Tell but a tithe of the tale. Sings all the sweetness of Spring Even in the nightingale? Nay, but with echoes she cries Of the v...
The moon in her gold over Tarbury Steep Wheeled full, in the hush of the night, To rabbit and hare she gave her still beams And to me on that silvery height. From the dusk of its glens thrilled the nightjar’s strange cry, A peewit wailed over the wheat, Else still was the air, though the stars in the sky Seemed with music in beauty to beat. O many ...
Oct 5, 2012 · The complete poems of Walter de la Mare by De la Mare, Walter, 1873-1956. Publication date 1970 Publisher New York, Knopf ... Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 500 ...
In his poems de la Mare has described the English sea and coast, the secret and hidden world of nature. His favorite themes, childhood, death, dreams, commonplace objects and events, de la Mare examined with a touch of mystery and often with an undercurrent of melancholy.
settings of poems by Walter de la Mare; these were The Scribe, Bread and Cherries and An Epitaph. The first of these is the most ambitious in scope, the second is short and whimsical, while the third is full of sensitivity and sympathetic feeling and is a good example of that 'identity of poet and composer' and 'direct and experienced knowledge ...
‘The Listeners’ by Walter de la Mare is a thirty six line poem that is contained within one block of text. The piece follows a consistent pattern of rhyme in the scheme of abcbdefe, and so on, changing end sounds as the poet saw fit.
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De La Mare's poems are thus heard, or overheard, in a hushed retreat of the mind, athrill, likely enough, with imagination, with nature or the supernatural, but more intensely quiet than the listening world demanded by any other poet. His treatment of the sounds of inanimate nature lies on the fringe of our subject and would lead too far.
