Walter de la Mare opens his anthology with the story of a boy who strays into an old stone house in a hollow and finds a mysterious book of verse. What follows is a huge gathering of English and American poems, ballads and rhymes arranged by mood and theme, from morning and May to war, bells, beasts, fairies and far places, with Coleridge’s ancient mariner among them.
Long treasured as one of the finest poetry anthologies for young readers, and generous enough to grow up with. Download the free EPUB.