'As a revelation of the wonders of the English language, de la Mare's poems for children are quite unrivalled.'
W. H. Auden
(* denotes main texts)
*Songs of Childhood, Longman, 1902 (under the name of Walter Ramal); Longman, 1916; new edition published as Songs as Childhood, illustrated by Estella Canziani, 1923; illustrated by Marion Rivers-Moore, Faber, 1956
A Child's Day, illustrated by Carine Cadby and Will Cadby, Constable, 1912; illustrated by Winifred Bromhall, Holt, 1923
*Peacock Pie, Constable, 1913, illustrated by W. Heath Robinson, 1916; illustrated by Jocelyn Crow, Holt, 1936; illustrated by Edward Ardizzone, Faber, 1946; illustrated by Barbara Cooney, Knopf, 1961; revised edition, Faber, 1969 and in Faber Children's Classics, 2001
Down-Adown-Derry, illustrated by Lathrop, Constable, 1922; Holt, 1922
Stuff and Nonsense, woodcuts by Bold, Constable, 1927; revised edition, Faber, 1946; illustrated by Margaret Wolpe, Faber, 1957
Poems for Children, Constable, 1930
This Year: Next Year, illustrated by Harold Jones, London, Faber, 1937
*Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes, illustrated by F. Rowland Emett, Faber, 1941; illustrated by Lathrop, Viking, 1942
*Collected Rhymes and Verses, illustrated by Berthold Wolpe, Faber, 1944; revised and enlarged edition, illustrated by Errol Le Cain, Faber, 1969
Rhymes and Verses: Collected Poems for Children, illustrated by Elinore Blaisdell, Holt, 1947
Selected Stories and Verses, edited by Eleanor Graham, Penguin, 1952
Poems, edited by Eleanor Graham, illustrated by Margery Gill, Penguin, 1962
The Voice: A Sequence of Poems, edited and illustrated by Catherine Brighton, Faber, 1986, Delacorte, 1987