Robert Louis Stevenson
A Child's Garden of Verses
Published by Good Press, 2022
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EAN 4057664625625
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I
BED IN SUMMER
II
A THOUGHT
III
AT THE SEASIDE
IV
YOUNG NIGHT THOUGHT
V
WHOLE DUTY OF CHILDREN
VI
RAIN
VII
PIRATE STORY
VIII
FOREIGN LANDS
IX
WINDY NIGHTS
X
TRAVEL
XI
SINGING
XII
LOOKING FORWARD
XIII
A GOOD PLAY
XIV
WHERE GO THE BOATS?
XV
AUNTIE'S SKIRTS
XVI
THE LAND OF COUNTERPANE
XVII
THE LAND OF NOD
XVIII
MY SHADOW
XIX
SYSTEM
XX
A GOOD BOY
XXI
ESCAPE AT BEDTIME
XXII
MARCHING SONG
XXIII
THE COW
XXIV
HAPPY THOUGHT
XXV
THE WIND
XXVI
KEEPSAKE MILL
XXVII
GOOD AND BAD CHILDREN
XXVIII
FOREIGN CHILDREN
XXIX
THE SUN'S TRAVELS
XXX
THE LAMPLIGHTER
XXXI
MY BED IS A BOAT
XXXII
THE MOON
XXXIII
THE SWING
XXXIV
TIME TO RISE
XXXV
LOOKING-GLASS RIVER
XXXVI
FAIRY BREAD
XXXVII
FROM A RAILWAY CARRIAGE
XXXVIII
WINTER-TIME
XXXIX
THE HAYLOFT
XL
FAREWELL TO THE FARM
XLI
NORTH-WEST PASSAGE
THE CHILD ALONE
I
THE UNSEEN PLAYMATE
II
MY SHIP AND I
III
MY KINGDOM
IV
PICTURE-BOOKS IN WINTER
V
MY TREASURES
VI
BLOCK CITY
VII
THE LAND OF STORY-BOOKS
VIII
ARMIES IN THE FIRE
IX
THE LITTLE LAND
GARDEN DAYS
I
NIGHT AND DAY
II
NEST EGGS
III
THE FLOWERS
IV
SUMMER SUN
V
THE DUMB SOLDIER
VI
AUTUMN FIRES
VII
THE GARDENER
VIII
HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS
ENVOYS
I
TO WILLIE AND HENRIETTA
II
TO MY MOTHER
III
TO AUNTIE
IV
TO MINNIE
V
TO MY NAME-CHILD
VI
TO ANY READER
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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 kings,
All carrying different kinds of things,
And marching in so grand a way,
You never saw the like by day.
So fine a show was never seen,
At the great circus on the green;
For every kind of beast and man
Is marching in that caravan.
At first they move a little slow,
But still the faster on they go,
And still beside them close I keep
Until we reach the town of Sleep.
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WHOLE DUTY OF CHILDREN
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A CHILD should always say what's true
And speak when he is spoken to,
And behave mannerly at table;
At least as far as he is able.
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RAIN
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THE rain is raining all around,
It falls on field and tree,
It rains on the umbrellas here,
And on the ships at sea.
Pirate Story
Three of us aboard in the basket on the lea
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PIRATE STORY
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THREE of us afloat in the meadow by the swing,
Three of us aboard in the basket on the lea.
Winds are in the air, they are blowing in the spring,
And waves are on the meadow like the waves there are at sea.
Where shall we adventure, to-day that we're afloat,
Wary of the weather and steering by a star?
Shall it be to Africa, a-steering of the boat,
To Providence, or Babylon, or off to Malabar?
Hi! but here's a squadron a-rowing on the sea—
Cattle on the meadow a-charging with a roar!
Quick, and we'll escape them, they're as mad as they can be,
The wicket is the harbour and the garden is the shore.
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FOREIGN LANDS
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