The Veil, and Other Poems
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By
WALTER DE LA MARE
New York
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
1922
Copyright, 1922,
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Seven of the poems included in this collection were written for Drawings by Miss Pamela Bianco, and were first published by Mr. Heinemann in a volume entitled Flora . The author's thanks are due to Mr. Sydney Pawling for permission to reprint these poems; to Mr. Cyril Beaumont for the use of 'Tidings' from a Play for Children, entitled Crossings ; and, for permission to include several other poems, to the Editors of the London Mercury , the New Republic , the Spectator , the Nation , the Century Magazine , the Cambridge Magazine , the Literary Review , the Sphere , the New Statesman , the Bookman's Journal , the Broom , the Outlook , the Athenæum , and the Westminster Gazette .
THE VEIL AND OTHER POEMS
Walter De la Mare
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CONTENTS
THE IMP WITHIN
THE OLD ANGLER
THE WILLOW
TITMOUSE
THE VEIL
THE FAIRY IN WINTER
THE FLOWER
BEFORE DAWN
THE SPECTRE
THE VOICE
THE HOUR-GLASS
IN THE DOCK
THE WRECK
THE SUICIDE
DRUGGED
WHO'S THAT?
HOSPITAL
A SIGN
GOOD-BYE
THE MONOLOGUE
AWAKE!
FORGIVENESS
THE MOTH
NOT THAT WAY
CRAZED
FOG
THE IMAGINATION'S PRIDE
THE WANDERERS
THE CORNER STONE
THE SPIRIT OF AIR
THE UNFINISHED DREAM
MUSIC
TIDINGS
THE SON OF MELANCHOLY
THE QUIET ENEMY
THE FAMILIAR
MAERCHEN
GOLD
MIRAGE
FLOTSAM
MOURN'ST THOU NOW?
THE GALLIASS
THE DECOY
SUNK LYONESSE
THE CATECHISM
FUTILITY
BITTER WATERS
WHO?
A RIDDLE
THE OWL
THE LAST COACHLOAD
AN EPITAPH
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