De la Mare Walter. The Listeners And Other Poems

"The Listeners" is narrative poem centering a traveler's encounter with the supernatural. It was first published in London in 1912 by Constable and Company in The Listeners and Other Poems, a collection of Walter de la Mare's verses.
The action takes place late on a moonlit evening at a dwelling in a forest. The time is the late nineteenth or early twentieth century. The tone is serious and the atmosphere is eerie and otherworldly.