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Poems
"As a revelation of the wonders of the English language, de la Mare's poems for children are quite unrivalled." W.H. Auden
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Songs of Childhood, Longman, 1902 (under the name of Walter Ramal); Longman, 1916; new edition published as Songs as Childhood, illustrated by Estella Canziani, 1923; illustrated by Marion Rivers-Moore, Faber, 1956
A Child's Day, illustrated by Carine Cadby and Will Cadby, Constable, 1912; illustrated by Winifred Bromhall, Holt, 1923
Peacock Pie, Constable, 1913, illustrated by W. Heath Robinson, 1916; illustrated by Jocelyn Crow, Holt, 1936; illustrated by Edward Ardizzone, Faber, 1946; illustrated by Barbara Cooney, Knopf, 1961; revised edition, Faber, 1969
Down-Adown-Derry, illustrated by Lathrop, Constable, 1922; Holt, 1922
Stuff and Nonsense, woodcuts by Bold, Constable, 1927; revised edition, Faber, 1946; illustrated by Margaret Wolpe, Faber, 1957
Poems for Children, Constable, 1930
This Year: Next Year, illustrated by Harold Jones, London, Faber, 1937
Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes, illustrated by F. Rowland Emett, Faber, 1941; illustrated by Lathrop, Viking, 1942
Collected Rhymes and Verses, illustrated by Berthold Wolpe, Faber, 1944; illustrated by Errol Le Cain, Faber, 1970
Rhymes and Verses: Collected Poems for Children, illustrated by Elinore Blaisdell, Holt, 1947
Selected Stories and Verses, edited by Eleanor Graham, Penguin, 1952
Poems, edited by Eleanor Graham, illustrated by Margery Gill, Penguin, 1962
The Voice: A Sequence of Poems, edited and illustrated by Catherine Brighton, Faber, 1986, Delacorte, 1987