COME HITHER
COME
HITHER
A
COLLECTION
OF RHYMES
AND POEMS
FOR THE
YOUNG OF
ALL AGES
MADE BY
WALTER DE LA MARE
AND EMBELLISHED
BY
ALEC BUCKELS
CONSTABLE & CO
LONDON BOMBAY SYDNEY
MCMXXIII.
PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY ROBERT MACLEHOSE AND CO. LTD.
THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, GLASGOW
TO
LAURA COLTMAN
IN LOVE AND
GRATITUDE
TABLE OF CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
|---|---|
| The Story of this Book | vii |
| Morning and May | 1 |
| Mother, Home, and Sweetheart | 19 |
| Feasts: Fairs: Beggars: Gipsies | 63 |
| Beasts of the Field: Fowls of the Air | 87 |
| Ouph: Elphin: Fay | 117 |
| Summer: Greenwood: Solitude | 135 |
| War | 165 |
| Dance, Music and Bells | 195 |
| Autumn Leaves: Winter Snow | 217 |
| "Like Stars upon some Gloomy Grove" | 249 |
| Far | 289 |
| "Lily Bright and Shine-a" | 343 |
| "Echo then shall again Tell her I follow" | 371 |
| Old Tales and Balladry | 413 |
| Evening and Dream | 447 |
| The Garden | 479 | <