Walter De la Mare

Walter de la Mare, who was born in Kent, was too poor to go to school beyond adolescence. He worked for many years as a bookkeeper for a petroleum conglomerate—Anglo-American Oil Company, at the time a branch

Listeners, The

by Walter De la Mare (1873–1956)

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 “Is there anybody there?” said the Traveller, 
  Knocking on the moonlit door; 
 And his horse in the silence champed the grasses 
  Of the forest's ferny floor: 
 And a bird flew up out of the turret, 
  Above the Traveller's head: 
 And he smote upon the door again a second time 
  “Is there anybody there?” he said. 
 But no one descended to the Traveller; 

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