Robert Louis Stevenson: Poems I  6454

A Child’s Garden of Verses

1. Prefatory note by Mrs R. L. Stevenson
2. Dedication

1. Bed in Summer
2. A Thought
3. At the Sea-Side
4. Young Night Thought
5. Whole Duty of Children
6. Rain
7. Pirate Story
8. Foreign Lands
9. Windy Nights
10. Travel
11. Singing
12. Looking Forward
13. A Good Play
14. Where Go The Boats?
15. Auntie’s Skirts
16. The Land of Counterpane
17. The Land of Nod
18. My Shadow
19. System
20. A Good Boy
21. Escape at Bedtime
22. Marching Song
23. The Cow
24. Happy Thought
25. The Wind
26. Keepsake Mill
27. Good and Bad Children
28. Foreign Children
29. The Sun’s Travels
30. The Lamplighter
31. My Bed is a Boat
32. The Moon
33. The Swing
34. Time to Rise
35. Looking-Glass River
36. Fairy Bread
37. From a Railway Carriage
38. Winter-Time
39. The Hayloft
40. Farewell to the Farm
41. North-West Passage
    • Good Night
    • Shadow March
    • In Port

The Child Alone

1. The Unseen Playmate
2. My Ship and I
3. My Kingdom
4. Picture-Books in Winter
5. My Treasures
6. Block City
7. The Land of Story-Books
8. Armies in the Fire
9. The Little Land

Garden Days

1. Night and Day
2. Nest Eggs
3. The Flowers
4. Summer Sun
5. The Dumb Soldier
6. Autumn Fires
7. The Gardener
8. Historical Associations

Envoys

1. To Willie and Henrietta
2. To My Mother
3. To Auntie
4. To Minnie
5. To My Name-Child
6. To Any Reader

Underwoods

• Prefatory note by Mrs R. L. Stevenson, with musical examples
• Dedication: “There are men and classes of men that stand above the common herd: the soldier, the sailor, and the shepherd not unfrequently; the artist rarely; rarelier still, the clergyman; the physician almost as a rule …”

Book 1 in English

1. Envoy
2. A Song of the Road
3. The Canoe Speaks
4. It is the season now to go …
5. The House Beautiful
6. A Visit from the Sea
7. To a Gardener
8. To Minnie (with a Hand-Glass)
9. To K. de M.
10. To No. V. de G. S.
11. To Will H. Low
12. To Mrs Will H. Low
13. To H. F. Brown (Written During a Dangerous Sickness)
14. To Andrew Lang
15. Et tu in Arcadia vixisti (To R. A. M. S.)
16. To W. E. Henley
17. Henry James
18. The Mirror Speaks
19. Katharine
20. To F. J. S.
21. Requiem
22. The Celestial Surgeon
23. Our Lady of the Snows
24. Not yet, my soul, these friendly fields desert …
25. It is not yours, O mother, to complain …
26. The Sick Child
27. In Memoriam F. A. S.
28. To My Father
29. In the States
30. A Portrait
31. Sing clearlier, Muse, or evermore be still
32. A Camp (from Travels with a Donkey)
33. The Country of the Samisards (from Travels with a Donkey)
34. Skerryvore
35. Skerryvore: The Parallel
36. My house, I say. But hark to the sunny doves …
37. My body which the dungeon is …
38. Say not of me that weakly I declined …
39. Dedicatory Poem

Book II in Scots

• Note (on Scots dialect)
• Table of Common Scottish vowel sounds

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Underwoods

Songs of Travel

Moral Emblems