Nicholas Nye

{{short description|1931 poem by Walter de la Mare}}

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| author = Walter De la Mare

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| country = Great Britain

| language = English

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| subject = Memories

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| publisher = Walter de la mare

| publication_date = {{start date|1931}}

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| lines = 40

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Nicholas Nye is a poem by British poet Walter de la Mare.{{cite web|url=https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/nicholas-nye/|title=Nicholas Nye by Walter de la Mare|date=3 January 2003 |publisher=Poemhunter.com}} It was published in the year 1931.{{cite web|url=http://poetry.literaturelearning.org/?q=node/359|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140303191554/http://poetry.literaturelearning.org/?q=node/359|url-status=usurped|archive-date=3 March 2014|title=Nicholas Nye|website=poetry.literaturelearning.org}} It has a total of 40 lines. It is written for children aged around 9–10 years. It is a six stanza poem in which the poet is the first person from view and visits an orchard and finds a donkey named 'Nicholas Nye'. He observes and describes the donkey 'Nicholas Nye' and discovers that he and the donkey are very similar. He explains the miseries and difficulties the donkey has to face for example being unwanted and alone.{{cite web|url=http://poetry.literaturelearning.org/?q=node/359|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140303191554/http://poetry.literaturelearning.org/?q=node/359|url-status=usurped|archive-date=3 March 2014|title=Nicholas Nye|publisher=Poetry literature learning}}{{cite web|url=http://www.iis-india.blogspot.in/|title=Nicholas Nye- Indian Institute of Students|publisher=IIS India|accessdate=11 June 2015}}