COME HITHER - Hardcover

De La Mare, Walter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394403363 ISBN 13: 9780394403366

Publisher: Knopf, 1957

Synopsis

Excerpt from Come Hither: A Collection of Rhymes and Poems for the Young of All Ages

IN my rovings and ramblings as a boy I had often skirted the old stone house in the hollow. But my first clear remembrance of it is of a hot summer's day. I had climbed to the Crest ofa hill till then unknown to me, and stood there, hot and breathless in the bright slippery grass, looking down on its grey walls and chimneys as if out of a dream. And as if out of a dream already familiar to me.

My real intention in setting out from home that morn ing had been to get to a place called East Dene. My mother had often spoken to me of East Dene - of its trees and waters and green pastures, and the rare birds and flowers to be found there. Ages ago, she had told me, an ancestor of our family had dwelt in this place. But She smiled a little strangely when I asked her to take me there. All in good time, my dear, she Whispered into my ear, all in very good time just follow your small nose. What kind of time, I wondered, was very good time. And follow my nose - how far? Such reflections indeed only made me the more anxious to be gone.

Early that morning, then, I had started out when the dew was still Sparkling, and the night mists had but just lifted. But my young legs soon tired of the steep.

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Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) was born in Charlton, Kent. In 1890, aged sixteen, he began work in the statistics department of the London office of Anglo-American Oil. In 1907 he published his first collection of poems under the pseudonym Walter Ramal, but he soon established a wide popular reputation in his own name as a leading poet of the Georgian period with volumes like The Listeners (1912), Motley (1918) and The Veil (1921). He also wrote poetry and short stories for younger readers; Peacock Pie (1913), a collection of poems for children, is now considered a twentieth-century classic. Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) was born in Charlton, Kent. In 1890, aged sixteen, he began work in the statistics department of the London office of Anglo-American Oil. In 1907 he published his first collection of poems under the pseudonym Walter Ramal, but he soon established a wide popular reputation in his own name as a leading poet of the Georgian period with volumes like The Listeners (1912), Motley (1918) and The Veil (1921). He also wrote poetry and short stories for younger readers; Peacock Pie (1913), a collection of poems for children, is now considered a twentieth-century classic.

Edition details

• Publisher: Knopf
• Publication date: 1957
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394403363
• ISBN 13: 9780394403366
• Binding: Hardcover