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Letter "W" » Walter de La Mare Quotes
«Slowly, silently, now the moon / Walks the night in her silver shoon.»
«All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.»
Author: Walter de La Mare
«Three jolly Farmers / Once bet a pound / Each dance the other would / Off the ground.»
«A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace»
Author: Walter de La Mare
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«Life's troubled bubble broken»
«Ann, Ann! / Come! quick as you can! / There's a fish that talks / In the frying pan.»
«Very old are we men; / Our dreams are tales / Told in dim Eden / By Eve's nightingales.»
«Has anybody seen my Mopser? - / A comely dog is he, / With hair the colour of a Charles the Fifth, / And teeth like ships at sea.»
«It's a very odd thing / As odd as can be / That whatever Miss T. eats / Turns into Miss T.»
Author: Walter de La Mare
«Since that all things thou wouldst praise / Beauty took from those who loved them / In other days.»
Author: Walter de La Mare
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