22+ The Listeners Poem Background. 'the listeners' was published in 1912 in de la mare's second collection. Ay, they heard his foot upon the stirrup.
And his horse in the silence champed the grasses of the forest's ferny floor:
This was a holloween poetry project for october 2017. It is not on the poem's human traveler, but on the phantom listeners who await him. The listeners, a poem by j. It is one of his most popular poems and touches on many of the themes and content that the poet is remembered for.