A Child's Garden of Verses

By Robert Louis Stevenson

A Child's Garden of Verses is book by Robert Louis Stevenson. It presents a collection of sixty-six poems, themed in colorful illustrations regarding animals, nature and free spirited tales of childhood.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Nov 27, 2019
• ISBN: 4057664612236

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, 2022

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EAN 4057664612236

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BED IN SUMMER

A Thought.

At The Seaside.

Young Night Thought.

WHOLE DUTY OF CHILDREN

RAIN

PIRATE STORY

Foreign Lands

Windy Nights

TRAVELS

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'S TRAVELS

THE LAMP-LIGHTER

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 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

NIGHT AND DAY.

NEST EGGS.

THE FLOWERS

SUMMER SUN.

THE DUMB SOLDIER

AUTUMN FIRES

THE GARDENER

HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS

TO WILLIE AND HENRIETTA

TO MY MOTHER

TO AUNTIE

TO MINNIE

TO MY NAME-CHILD

TO ANY READER

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 people's 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?

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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.

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At The Seaside.

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When I was down beside the sea

A wooden spade they gave to me

To dig the sandy shore.

My holes were empty like a cup,

In every hole the sea came up,

Till it could come no more.

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Young Night Thought.

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All night long and every night,

When my mamma puts out the light,

I see the people marching by,

As plain as day, before my eye.

Armies and emperors and