This is the second book issued by the Beaumont Press 20 copies have been printed on Japanese vellum signed by the author and numbered 1 to 20 and 250 copies on hand-made paper numbered 21 to 270. This is No. 200.
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THE LITTLE SALAMANDER | |
When I go free, | 9 |
THE SUNKEN GARDEN | |
Speak not—whisper not; | 10 |
THE RIDDLERS | |
‘Thou Solitary!’ the Blackbird cried, | 11 |
MRS. GRUNDY | |
‘Step very softly, sweet Quiet-foot, | 13 |
THE DARK HOUSE | |
See this house, how dark it is | 15 |
MISTRESS FELL | |
‘Whom seek you here, sweet Mistress Fell?’ | 16 |
THE STRANGER | |
In the woods as I did walk, | 18 |
THE FLIGHT | |
How do the days press on, and lay | 19 |
THE REMONSTRANCE | |
I was at peace until you came | 20 |
THE EXILE | |
I am that Adam who, with Snake for guest, | 21 |
EYES | |
O Strange Devices that alone divide | 22 |
THE TRYST | |
Why in my heart, O grief, | 23 |
THE OLD MEN | |
Old and alone, sit we, | 25 |
THE FOOL’S SONG | |
Never, no, never, listen too long, | 26 |
THE DREAMER | |
O Thou who giving helm and sword, | 27 |
MOTLEY | |
Come, Death, have a word with thee; | 28 |
TO E. T.: 1917. | |
You sleep too well—too far away, | 31 |
ALEXANDER | |
It was the great Alexander, | 32 |
FOR ALL THE GRIEF | |
For all the grief I have given with words | 34 |
FAREWELL | |
When I lie where shades of darkness | 35 |
CLEAR EYES | |
Clear eyes do dim at last, | 36 |
MUSIC | |
When Music sounds, gone is the earth I know, | 37 |
IN A CHURCHYARD | |
As children bidden to go to bed | 38 |
TWO HOUSES | |
In the strange city of life | 39 |
COLOPHON | 40 |
HERE ENDS THE SUNKEN GARDEN AND
Other Poems by Walter De La Mare the Typography
and Binding arranged by Cyril William Beaumont
Printed on his Press in London and Published
by him at 75 Charing Cross Road in the
City of Westminster Completed
on the first day of December
MDCCCCXVII
The Binding has been
executed by F. Sangorski and G. Sutcliffe