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In celebration of National Poetry Month in April, we are pleased to present over the next several days the winning poems (and honorable mentions) in our second annual Granger's Poetry Contest here.

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Walter De la Mare

Walter de la Mare, who was born in Kent, was too poor to go to school beyond adolescence. He worked for many years as a bookkeeper for a petroleum conglomerate—Anglo-American Oil Company, at the time a branch

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by Walter De la Mare (1873–1956)

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 “Is there anybody there?” said the Traveller, 
  Knocking on the moonlit door; 
 And his horse in the silence champed the grasses 
  Of the forest's ferny floor: 
 And a bird flew up out of the turret, 
  Above the Traveller's head: 
 And he smote upon the door again a second time 
  “Is there anybody there?” he said. 
 But no one descended to the Traveller; 

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Poets Book of Days

April 25

Walter de la Mare born, 1873

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Poetry Trivia

Question:

What poet's epitaph reads, "And alien tears will fill for him / Pity's long broken urn, / For his mourners will be outcast men, / And outcasts always mourn"?

Answer

Oscar Wilde. The lines are taken from his poem "Ballad of Reading Gaol."

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