Sea and Shore Songs

As we sailed out of London River
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Text Authorship:

by Walter De la Mare (1873 - 1956), "Bonum Omen", appears in Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes, first published 1941

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A screech across the sands
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Text Authorship:

by Walter De la Mare (1873 - 1956), "Mr. Punch", appears in This Year: Next Year, first published 1937

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"Dark-browed Sailor, tell me now,
Where, where is Araby?
The tide's aflow, the wind ablow,
'Tis I who pine for Araby."

"Master, she her spices showers
O'er nine-and-ninety leagues of sea;
The laden air breathes faint and rare -
Dreams on far-distant Araby."

"Oh, but Sailor, tell me true;
'Twas Man who mapped this Araby;
Though dangers brew, let me and you
Embark this night for Araby..."

Wails the wind from star to star;
Rock the loud waves their dirge: and see!
Through foam and wrack, a boat drifts back:
Ah, heart-beguiling Araby!

Text Authorship:

by Walter De la Mare (1873 - 1956), appears in Crossings: A Fairy Play, Sallie's song, first published 1921

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Here am I
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Text Authorship:

by Walter De la Mare (1873 - 1956), "Please to remember", from This Year: Next Year, first published 1937

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"Sailorman, I'll give to you
My bright silver penny,
If out to sea you'll sail me
And my dear sister Jenny."

"Get in, young sir, I'll sail ye
And your dear sister Jenny,
But pay she shall her golden locks
Instead of your penny."

They sail away, they sail away,
O fierce the winds blew!
The foam flew in clouds,
And dark the night grew!

And all the wild sea-water
Climbed steep into the boat;
Back to the shore again
Sail they will not.

Drowned is the sailorman,
Drowned is sweet Jenny,
And drowned in the deep sea
A bright silver penny.

Text Authorship:

by Walter De la Mare (1873 - 1956), "The silver penny", appears in Songs of Childhood, first published 1902

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    King David was a sorrowful man:
        No cause for his sorrow had he;
And he called for the music of a hundred harps,
       To ease his melancholy.

    They played till they all fell silent:
        Played and play sweet did they;
But the sorrow that haunted the heart of King David
        They could not charm away.

    He rose; and in his garden
        Walked by the moon alone,
A nightingale hidden in a cypress tree,
        Jargoned on and on.

    King David lifted his sad eyes
        Into the dark-boughed tree --
"Tell me, thou little bird that singest,
        Who taught my grief to thee?"

    But the bird in no-wise heeded;
        And the king in the cool of the moon
Hearkened to the nightingale's sorrowfulness,
        Till all his own was gone.

Text Authorship:

by Walter De la Mare (1873 - 1956), "King David", appears in Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes, in 4. Places and People, no. 12, first published 1913

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Confirmed with Peacock Pie. A Book of Rhymes by Walter de la Mare, London: Constable & Co. Ltd., [1920], page 111.

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Song Cycle by Michael John Hurd (1928 - 2006)

?. London River

?. Mr. Punch

?. Araby [sung text not yet checked]

?. The guy

?. The silver penny [sung text not yet checked]

?. King David [sung text not yet checked]