E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, storm, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) THE LISTENERS AND OTHER POEMS by WALTER DE LA MARE [Illustration] New York Henry Holt and Company The author's thanks for permission to reprint certain of the poems included in this collection are due to the Editors of the _Saturday Review_, the _Thrush_, the _Pall Mall Magazine_, the _Odd Volume_, the _Lady's Realm_, the _English Review_, the _Westminster Gazette_, the _Commonwealth_, and the _Nation_. CONTENTS PAGE THE THREE CHERRY TREES 1 OLD SUSAN 3 OLD BEN 5 MISS LOO 7 THE TAILOR 9 MARTHA 10 THE SLEEPER 12 THE KEYS OF MORNING 14 RACHEL 16 ALONE 17 THE BELLS 19 THE SCARECROW 21 NOD 23 THE BINDWEED 25 WINTER 26 THERE BLOOMS NO BUD IN MAY 27 NOON AND NIGHT FLOWER 29 ESTRANGED 30 THE TIRED CUPID 31 DREAMS 32 FAITHLESS 33 THE SHADE 34 BE ANGRY NOW NO MORE 35 SPRING 36 EXILE 37 WHERE? 38 MUSIC UNHEARD 39 ALL THAT'S PAST 41 WHEN THE ROSE IS FADED 43 SLEEP 44 THE STRANGER 45 NEVER MORE, SAILOR 47 THE WITCH 49 ARABIA 52 THE MOUNTAINS 54 QUEEN DJENIRA 55 NEVER-TO-BE 57 THE DARK CHATEAU 59 THE DWELLING-PLACE 61 THE LISTENERS 64 TIME PASSES 66 BEWARE! 68 THE JOURNEY 69 HAUNTED 74 SILENCE 76 WINTER DUSK 78 AGES AGO 80 HOME 82 THE GHOST 84 AN EPITAPH 85 'THE HAWTHORN HATH A DEATHLY SMELL' 86 THE THREE CHERRY TREES