Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE TAILOR, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Few footsteps stray when dusk droops o'er Last Line: He'll mutter half a seam away. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Tailors; Dress Makers | ||||||||
Few footsteps stray when dusk droops o'er The tailor's old stone-lintelled door. There sits he, stitching, half asleep, Beside his smoky tallow dip. 'Click, click,' his needle hastes, and shrill Cries back the cricket beneath the sill. Sometimes he stays, and over his thread Leans sidelong his old tousled head; Or stoops to peer with half-shut eye When some strange footfall echoes by; Till clearer gleams his candle's spark Into the dusty summer dark. Then from his cross legs he gets down, To find how dark the evening's grown; And hunched up in his door he'll hear The cricket whistling crisp and clear; And so beneath the starry grey He'll mutter half a seam away. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE OVIPAROUS TAILOR by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES TWO OF A TRADE by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON OF A PRECISE TAILOR by JOHN HARRINGTON EVENING, BY A TAILOR by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES YE TAILYOR-MAN; A CONTEMPLATIVE BALLAD by JOHN GODFREY SAXE ALL THAT'S PAST by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE ALONE (2) by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE AN EPITAPH by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE ARABIA by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE BUNCHES OF GRAPES by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE |
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