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    A Child's Garden of Verses
    A Child's Garden of Verses
    A Child's Garden of Verses
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    A Child's Garden of Verses

    By Robert Louis Stevenson

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    A Child's Garden of Verses is a volume of 64 poems for children by Robert Louis Stevenson. They are all created from a child's point of view. Contents: Pirate Story, A Good Play, My Shadow, The Lamplighter, From a Railway Carriage and many more.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateNov 19, 2019
    ISBN4057664134080
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    Robert Louis Stevenson

    Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a Scottish poet, novelist, and travel writer. Born the son of a lighthouse engineer, Stevenson suffered from a lifelong lung ailment that forced him to travel constantly in search of warmer climates. Rather than follow his father’s footsteps, Stevenson pursued a love of literature and adventure that would inspire such works as Treasure Island (1883), Kidnapped (1886), Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), and Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879).

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      A Child's Garden of Verses - Robert Louis Stevenson

      Robert Louis Stevenson

      A Child's Garden of Verses

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4057664134080

      Table of Contents

      ILLUSTRATIONS

      BED IN SUMMER

      A THOUGHT

      AT THE SEA-SIDE

      YOUNG NIGHT-THOUGHT

      WHOLE DUTY OF CHILDREN

      RAIN

      PIRATE STORY

      FOREIGN LANDS

      WINDY NIGHTS

      TRAVEL

      SINGING

      LOOKING FORWARD

      A GOOD PLAY

      WHERE GO THE BOATS?

      AUNTIE'S SKIRTS

      THE LAND OF COUNTERPANE

      THE LAND OF NOD

      MY SHADOW

      SYSTEM

      A GOOD BOY

      ESCAPE AT BEDTIME

      MARCHING SONG

      THE COW

      HAPPY THOUGHT

      THE WIND

      KEEPSAKE MILL

      GOOD AND BAD CHILDREN

      FOREIGN CHILDREN

      THE SUN TRAVELS

      THE LAMPLIGHTER

      MY BED IS A BOAT

      THE MOON

      THE SWING

      TIME TO RISE

      LOOKING-GLASS RIVER

      FAIRY BREAD

      FROM A RAILWAY CARRIAGE

      WINTER-TIME

      THE HAYLOFT

      FAREWELL TO THE FARM

      NORTH-WEST PASSAGE

      THE CHILD ALONE

      THE UNSEEN PLAYMATE

      MY SHIP AND I

      MY KINGDOM

      PICTURE-BOOKS IN WINTER

      MY TREASURES

      BLOCK CITY

      THE LAND OF STORY-BOOKS

      ARMIES IN THE FIRE

      THE LITTLE LAND

      GARDEN DAYS

      NIGHT AND DAY

      NEST EGGS

      THE FLOWERS

      SUMMER SUN

      THE DUMB SOLDIER

      AUTUMN FIRES

      THE GARDENER

      HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS

      ENVOYS

      TO WILLIE AND HENRIETTA

      TO MY MOTHER

      TO AUNTIE

      TO MINNIE

      TO MY NAME-CHILD

      TO ANY READER

      THE SCRIBNER ILLUSTRATED CLASSICS

      ILLUSTRATIONS

      Table of Contents

      FROM DRAWINGS IN COLOR

      BY JESSIE WILLCOX SMITH

      A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES

      Table of Contents

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