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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SUMMER EVENING, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: The sandy cat by the farmer's chair
Last Line: Gone is another summer's day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Animals
First Line: The sandy cat by the farmer's chair
Last Line: Gone is another summer's day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Animals
The sandy cat by the Farmer's chair
Mews at his knee for dainty fare;
Old Rover in his moss-greened house
Mumbles a bone, and barks at a mouse.
In the dewy fields the cattle lie
Chewing the cud 'neath a fading sky;
Dobbin at manger pulls his hay:
Gone is another summer's day.
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