Songs of Travel, and Other Verses

By Robert Louis Stevenson

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• Language: English
• Publisher: DigiCat
• Release date: Sep 4, 2022
• ISBN: 8596547254515

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

Songs of Travel, and Other Verses

EAN 8596547254515

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Table of Contents

I—THE VAGABOND (To an air of Schubert)

II—YOUTH AND LOVE—I

III—YOUTH AND LOVE—II

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

X

XI

XII—WE HAVE LOVED OF YORE (To an air of Diabelli)

XIII—MATER TRIUMPHANS

XIV

XV

XVI (To the tune of Wandering Willie)

XVII—WINTER

XVIII

XIX—TO DR. HAKE (On receiving a Copy of Verses)

XX—TO ---

XXI

XXII

XXIII

XXIV

XXV—IF THIS WERE FAITH

XXVI—MY WIFE

XXVII—TO THE MUSE

XXVIII—TO AN ISLAND PRINCESS

XXIX—TO KALAKAUA (With a present of a Pearl)

XXX—TO PRINCESS KAIULANI

XXXI—TO MOTHER MARYANNE

XXXII—IN MEMORIAM E. H.

XXXIII—TO MY WIFE (A Fragment)

XXXIV—TO MY OLD FAMILIARS

XXXV

XXXVI—TO S. C.

XXXVII—THE HOUSE OF TEMBINOKA

XXXVIII—THE WOODMAN

XXXIX—TROPIC RAIN

XL—AN END OF TRAVEL

XLI

XLII

XLIV—EVENSONG

I—THE VAGABOND

(To an air of Schubert)

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Give to me the life I love,

Let the lave go by me,

Give the jolly heaven above

And the byway nigh me.

Bed in the bush with stars to see,

Bread I dip in the river—

There’s the life for a man like me,

There’s the life for ever.

Let the blow fall soon or late,

Let what will be o’er me;

Give the face of earth around

And the road before me.

Wealth I seek not, hope nor love,

Nor a friend to know me;

All I seek, the heaven above

And the road below me.

Or let autumn fall on me

Where afield I linger,

Silencing the bird on tree,

Biting the blue finger.

White as meal the frosty field—

Warm the fireside haven—

Not to autumn will I yield,

Not to winter even!

Let the blow fall soon or late,

Let what will be o’er me;

Give the face of earth around,

And the road before me.

Wealth I ask not, hope nor love,

Nor a friend to know me;

All I ask, the heaven above

And the road below me.

II—YOUTH AND LOVE—I

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Once only by the garden gate

Our lips we joined and parted.

I must fulfil an empty fate

And travel the