<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=336460" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Listeners</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Is there anybody there?' said the Traveller,<br>Knocking on the moonlit door;<br>And his horse in the silence champed the grasses<br>Of the forest’s ferny floor:<br>And a bird flew up out of the turret,<br>Above the Traveller’s head:<br>And he smote upon the door again a second time;<br>'Is there anybody there?' he said.<br>But no one descended to the Traveller;<br>No head from the leaf-fringed sill<br>Leaned over and looked into his grey eyes,<br>Where he stood perplexed and still.<br>But only a host of phantom listeners<br>That dwelt in the lone house then<br>Stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight<br>To that voice from the world of men:<br>Stood thronging the faint moonbeams on the dark stair,<br>That goes down to the empty hall,<br>Hearkening in an air stirred and shaken<br>By the lonely Traveller's call.<br>And he felt in his heart their strangeness,<br>Their stillness answering his cry,<br>While his horse moved, cropping the dark turf,<br>'Neath the starred and leafy sky;<br>For he suddenly smote on the door, even<br>Louder, and lifted his head:—<br>'Tell them I came, and no one answered,<br>That I kept my word,' he said.<br>Never the least stir made the listeners,<br>Though every word he spake<br>Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house<br>From the one man left awake:<br>Ay, they heard his foot upon the stirrup,<br>And the sound of iron on stone,<br>And how the silence surged softly backward,<br>When the plunging hoofs were gone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Walter+de+la+Mare">Walter de la Mare</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=336460" data-title="The Listeners de Walter de la Mare" data-description="'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 d..."></div> </div> </div>

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