Robert Louis Stevenson

A Child's Garden of Verses

Table of Contents

• To Alison Cunningham, From Her Boy

• Bed in Summer
• A Thought
• At the Sea-side
• Young Night-Thought
• Whole Duty of Children
• Rain
• Pirate Story
• Foreign Lands
• Windy Nights
• Travel
• Singing
• Looking Forward
• A Good Play
• Where Go the Boats?
• Auntie's Skirts
• The Land of Counterpane
• The Land of Nod
• My Shadow
• System
• A Good Boy
• Escape at Bedtime
• Marching Song
• The Cow
• The Happy Thought
• The Wind
• Keepsake Mill
• Good and Bad Children
• Foreign Children
• The Sun Travels
• The Lamplighter
• My Bed is a Boat
• The Moon
• The Swing
• Time to Rise
• Looking-glass River
• Fairy Bread
• From a Railway Carriage
• Winter-time
• The Hayloft
• Farewell to the Farm
• North-west Passage [Good-Night, Shadow March, In Port]

The Child Alone

• The Unseen Playmate
• My Ship and I
• My Kingdom
• Picture-books in Winter
• My Treasures
• Block City
• The Land of Story-books
• Armies in the Fire
• The Little Land

Garden Days

• Night and Day
• Nest Eggs
• The Flowers
• Summer Sun
• The Dumb Soldier
• Autumn Fires
• The Gardener
• Historical Associations

Envoys

• To Willie and Henrietta
• To My Mother
• To Auntie
• To Minnie
• To My Name-Child
• To Any Reader