Walter de la Mare

Walter de la Mere (1873-1956) was an English poet, short story writer and novelist, probably best remembered for his works for children and the poem "The Listeners".

Some of his work online;

http://www.readbookonline.net/books/De%20la%20Mare/389/

Bibliography of His Books for Children (Poetry):

_Songs of Childhood._ London 1902.

_A Child's Day: a Book of Rhymes to Pictures by C. W. Cadby._ London 1912.

_Peacock Pie: a Book of Rhymes._ London 1913.

_Down-adown-derry: a Book of Fairy Poems._ London 1922.

_Stuff and Nonsense._ London 1927.

_Poems for Children._ London [1930].

_This Year, Next Year._ London 1937.

'As a revelation of the wonders of the English language, de la Mare's poems for children are quite unrivalled.'                                                                                                                                                                                      W. H. Auden

Silver

Slowly, silently, now the moon Walks the night in her silver shoon; This way, and that, she peers, and sees Silver fruit upon silver trees; One by one the casements catch Her beams beneath the silvery thatch; Couched in his kennel, like a log, With paws of silver sleeps the dog; From their shadowy cote the white breasts peep Of doves in silver feathered sleep 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.