Poetry by Robert Louis Stevenson
A Child's Garden of Verses, 1885

A Child's Garden of Verses Read the Virtual Book

A Child’s Garden of Verses Contents


I. Bed in Summer; II. A Thought; III. At the Sea-Side; 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. The Happy Thought; XXV. The Wind; XXVI. Keepsake Mill; XXVII. Good and Bad Children; XXVIII. Foreign Children; XXIX. The Sun 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: 1. Good-Night, 2. Shadow March, 3. In Port

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

Read more...
 
Underwoods, 1887

RLS Read the Virtual Book

Underwoods Contents

Book I. In English

I. Envoy; II. A Song Of The Road; III. The Canoe Speaks; IV. “It is the season now to go”; V. The House Beautiful; VI. A Visit From The Sea; VII. To A Gardener; VIII. To Minnie; IX. To K. De M.; X. To N. V. De G. S.; XI. To Will. H. Low; XII. To Mrs. Will. H. Low; XIII. To H. F. Brown; XIV. To Andrew Lang; XV. Et Tu In Arcadia Vixisti (To R. A. M. S.); XVI. To W. E. Henley; XVII. Henry James; XVIII. The Mirror Speaks; XIX. Katharine; XX. To F. J. S.; XXI. Requiem; XXII. The Celestial Surgeon; XXIII. Our Lady Of The Snows; XXIV. “Not yet, my soul, these friendly fields desert”; XXV. “It is not yours, O mother, to complain”; XXVI. The Sick Child; XXVII. In Memoriam F. A. S.; XXVIII. To My Father; XXIX. In The States; XXX. A Portrait; XXXI. “Sing clearlier, Muse, or evermore be still”; XXXII. A Camp; XXXIII. The Country of the Camisards; XXXIV. Skerryvore; XXXV. Skerryvore: The Parallel; XXXVI. “My house, I say. But hark to the sunny doves”; XXXVII. “My body which my dungeon is”; XXXVIII. “Say not of me that weakly I declined”

Read more...
 
Ballads, 1890

Read the Virtual Book

Ballads Contents

"The Song of Rahero: A Legend of Tahiti"
I. The Slaying of Tamatea; II. The Venging of Tamatea; III. Rahero; Notes to the Song of Rahero

"The Feast of Famine: Marquesan Manners"
I. The Priest's Vigil; II. The Lovers; III. The Feast IV. The Raid; Notes to the Feast of Famine

"Ticonderoga: A Legend of the West Highlands"
I. The Saying of the Name; II. The Seeking of the Name; III. The Place of the Name; Notes to Ticonderoga

"Heather Ale: A Galloway Legend"
Note to Heather Ale

"Christmas at Sea"

Read more...
 
Songs of Travel and Other Verses, 1895

King Kalakaua Read the Virtual Book

Songs of Travel and Other Verses Contents

I. The Vagabond—Give to me the life I love; II. Youth and Love: i.—Once only by the garden gate; III. Youth and Love: ii.—To the heart of youth the world is a highwayside; IV. In dreams, unhappy, I behold you stand; V. She rested by the Broken Brook; VI. The infinite shining heavens; VII. Plain as the glistering planets shine; VIII. To you, let snows and roses; IX. Let Beauty awake in the morn from beautiful dreams; X. I know not how it is with you; XI. I will make you brooches and toys for your delight; XII. We have loved of Yore—Berried brake and reedy island; XIII. Mater Triumphans—Son of my woman’s body, you go, to the drum and fife; XIV. Bright is the ring of words; XV. In the highlands, in the country places; XVI. Home no more home to me, wither must I wander?; XVII. Winter—In rigorous hours, when down the iron lane; XVIII. The stormy evening closes now in vain; XIX. To Dr. Hake—In the belovèd hour that ushers day; XX. To —I knew thee strong and quiet like the hills

Read more...