A Child's Garden of Verses
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850, the only son of an engineer, Thomas Stevenson. Despite a lifetime of poor health, Stevenson was a keen traveller, and his first book An Inland Voyage (1878) recounted a canoe tour of France and Belgium. In 1880, he married an American divorcee, Fanny Osbourne, and there followed Stevenson's most productive period, in which he wrote, amongst other books, Treasure Island (1883), The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and Kidnapped (both 1886). In 1888, Stevenson left Britain in search of a more salubrious climate, settling in Samoa, where he died in 1894.
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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, 2019
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Table of Contents
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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II
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