A Child's Garden of Verses

Robert Louis Stevenson’s verses of the nursery and the imagination — the swing, the lamplighter, the land of counterpane.

Poetry from inside childhood

In this collection

• Peace-Hymn of the Republic
• Robin Redbreast
• Query
• Lord Heygate
• The Monument of Q. H. F
• The Ugly Duckling
• In God's Garden: Saint Christopher
• To Mr. Murray (Strahan, Tonson Lintot of the Times)
• Donkey Races
• Lucius Atherton
• A Prelude
• At a Seaside Town in 1869
• A Woman's Way
• When I have Sense of what to Sense Appears
• Herr Korbes
• The Adventurer
• Little Daughters
• The Rose
• On the Death of Mr. Charles Savory
• Heart not so Heavy as Mine
• The Drones and the Bee
• Leviathan
• Old October (in Dialect)
• Tis Morning Now

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