Some One (Monday Poem)

by Walter de la Mare

Some one came knocking 

At my wee small door;

Some one came knocking,

I'm sure -- sure -- sure;

I listened, I opened,

I looked to left and right,

But nought there was a-stirring

In the still dark night;

Only the busy beetle

Tap-tapping in the wall,

Only from the forest

The screech-owl's call,

Only the cricket whitling

While the dewdrops fall,

So I know not who came knocking,

At all, at all, at all.

 

 

from Sing a Song of Seasons: 

A Nature Poem for Each Day of the Year

Selected by Fiona Waters

illustrated by Frann Preston-Gannon

Candlewick Press, 2018