Four Rhymes from "Peacock Pie"

Old Tillie Turveycombe
Sat to sew,
Just where a patch of fern did grow;
There, as she yawned,
And yawn wide did she,
Floated some seed
Down her gull-e-t;
And look you once,
And look you twice,
Poor old Tillie
Was gone in a trice.
But oh, when the wind
Do a-moaning come,
'Tis poor old Tillie
Sick for home;
And oh, when a voice
In the mist do sigh,
Old Tillie Turveycombe's
Floating by.

Text Authorship:

• by Walter De la Mare (1873 - 1956), "Tillie", appears in Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes, in 1. Up and Down, no. 20, first published 1913

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  Here is a sea-legged sailor,
  Come to this tottering Inn,
Just when the bronze on its signboard is fading,
  And the black shades of evening begin.,

  With his head on thick paws sleeps a sheep-dog,
  There stoops the Shepherd, and see,
All follow-my-leader the ducks waddle homeward,
  Under the sycamore tree.

  Very brown is the face of the Sailor,
  His bundle is crimson, and green
Are the thick leafy boughs that hang dense o'er the Tavern,
  And blue the far meadows between.

  But the Crust, Ale and Cheese of the Sailor,
  His Mug and his platter of Delf,
And the crescent to light home the Shepherd and Sheep-dog
  The painter has kept to himself.

Text Authorship:

• by Walter De la Mare (1873 - 1956), "The picture", appears in Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes, in 4. Places and People, no. 11, first published 1913

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