Explore "My Bed is a Boat" by Robert Louis Stevenson on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
My bed is like a little boat; / Nurse helps me in when I embark; / She girds me in my sailor's coat / And starts me in the dark.
At night, I go on board and say / Good night to all my friends on shore; / I shut my eyes and sail away / And see and hear no more.
And sometimes things to bed I take, / As prudent sailors have to do; / Perhaps a slice of wedding-cake, / Perhaps a toy or two.
All night across the dark we steer: / But when the day returns at last / Safe in my room, beside the pier, / I find my vessel fast.