Walter de la Mare

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I loved Walter de la Mare when I was growing up.  He had a way of creating visual images for me

"Swiftly, silently now the moon
walks the night in her silver shoon."

I had to illustrate a poem for a high school English class and chose this one.  The teacher argued with me about the word shoon.  She thought I made it up.  I had to show her the original out of this book before she would believe me.  My dad liked de la Mare and used to read to me out of this collection.  I still like it and him, but because we may have to move, I need to downsize and some things, although they still have precious memories, need to go.  Lots of good material in this book.