A Child's Garden of Verses

By Robert Louis Stevenson

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Nov 26, 2019
• ISBN: 4057664626356

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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Robert Louis Stevenson

A Child's Garden of Verses

Published by Good Press, 2019

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EAN 4057664626356

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A Child's Garden of Verses

A THOUGHT

BED IN SUMMER

YOUNG NIGHT THOUGHT

WHOLE DUTY OF CHILDREN

PIRATE STORY

FOREIGN LANDS

WINDY NIGHTS

TRAVEL

WHERE GO THE BOATS?

THE LAND OF COUNTERPANE

A GOOD PLAY

LOOKING FORWARD

SINGING

RAIN

THE LAND OF NOD

SYSTEM

MY SHADOW

AUNTIE'S SKIRTS

A GOOD BOY

ESCAPE AT BEDTIME

AT THE SEA-SIDE

MARCHING SONG

THE COW

HAPPY THOUGHT

THE WIND

THE SUN'S TRAVELS

THE LAMPLIGHTER

KEEPSAKE MILL

GOOD AND BAD CHILDREN

FOREIGN CHILDREN

MY BED IS A BOAT

THE MOON

THE SWING

TIME TO RISE

FAIRY BREAD

FROM A RAILWAY CARRIAGE

LOOKING-GLASS RIVER

THE HAYLOFT

WINTER-TIME

FAREWELL TO THE FARM

The Northwest Passage

GOOD NIGHT

SHADOW MARCH

IN PORT

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

THE LITTLE LAND

Garden Days

NIGHT AND DAY

NEST EGGS

THE FLOWERS

AUTUMN FIRES

ARMIES IN THE FIRE

SUMMER SUN

THE DUMB SOLDIER

THE GARDENER

HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS

Envoys

TO WILLIE AND HENRIETTA

TO MY MOTHER

TO AUNTIE

TO MINNIE

TO MY NAME-CHILD

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TO ANY READER

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A THOUGHT

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It is very nice to think

The world is full of meat and drink

With little children saying grace

In every Christian kind of place.

BED IN SUMMER

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In winter I get up at night

And dress by yellow candle-light.

In summer, quite the other way,

I have to go to bed by day.

I have to go to bed and see

The birds still hopping on the tree,

Or hear the grown-up peoples' feet

Still going past me in the street.

And does it not seem hard to you,

When all the sky is clear and blue,

And I should like so much to play,

To have to go to bed by day?

YOUNG NIGHT THOUGHT

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All night long and every night,

When my mama puts out the light,

I see the people marching by,

As plain as day, before my eye.

Armies and emperors and kings,

All carrying