O Dear Me!/The Flower/The Wind [DE LA MARE poems set to music]
Channel: tobydarling
Date: 2021-03-18

O Dear Me!  (Walter de la Mare)

G D C G    
 Here are crocuses, white, gold, grey!
A D G
        'O dear me!' says Marjorie May;
C G Am Em
     Flat as a platter the blackberry blows:
F#m D G
        'O dear me!' says Madeleine Rose;
C- G-Am -Em Am Em
     The leaves are fallen, the swallows flown:
B7 Em A
        'O dear me!' says Humphrey John;
D - A -G-F#m Bm F#m
     Snow lies thick where all night it fell:
D A G A
        'O dear me!' says Emmanuel.

The Flower [from Crossings]

Gm9 Gm Dm7 Am7
Listen, I who love thee well
F C Dm7
Have travelled far, and secrets tell;
C Dm7
Cold the moon that gleams thine eyes,
F C F C
Yet beneath her further skies
Dm7 Am7
Rests, for thee, a paradise

I have plucked a flower in proof,
Frail, in earthly light, forsooth:
See, invisible it lies
In this palm: Now veil thine eyes:
Quaff its fragrancies!

Would indeed my throat had skill
To breathe thee music, faint and still - 
Music learned in dreaming deep
In those lands, from Echo’s lip….
‘Twould lull thy soul to sleep.

The Wind

D
The Wind - yes, I hear it - goes wandering by,
Dmaj7 Am7 Em
Willow and beech stir their branches and sigh;
G D G D
Each leaf to its sisters lisps softly, and then,
Em G G-D-F#m-A D
The air being stilled, they are silent again.

Alone with the stars stands a thorn on the height,
The snow of his flowers perfuming the night;
But so sharp are his prickles, so gnarled his old bole,

When the ind calls to him, he just whimpers, poor soul!


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