A Child's Garden of Verses: Illustrated
()
About this ebook
The collection first appeared in 1885 under the title Penny Whistles, but has been reprinted many times, often in illustrated versions. It contains about 65 poems including the cherished classics "Foreign Children," "The Lamplighter," "The Land of Counterpane," "Bed in Summer," "My Shadow" and "The Swing."
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (1850–1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and A Child's Garden of Verses.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850, the only son of an engineer, Thomas Stevenson. Despite a lifetime of poor health, Stevenson was a keen traveller, and his first book An Inland Voyage (1878) recounted a canoe tour of France and Belgium. In 1880, he married an American divorcee, Fanny Osbourne, and there followed Stevenson's most productive period, in which he wrote, amongst other books, Treasure Island (1883), The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and Kidnapped (both 1886). In 1888, Stevenson left Britain in search of a more salubrious climate, settling in Samoa, where he died in 1894.
Related to A Child's Garden of Verses
Related ebooks
A Child's Garden of Verses - Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Child's Garden of Verses Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Burgess Bird Book for Children Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Among the Night People: With linked Table of Contents Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Burgess Animal Book for Children Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Five Litter Peppers and How They Grew Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Story of the Greeks Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Children's Book of Christmas Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Burgess Animal Book for Children Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Burgess Bird Book for Children Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThis Country of Ours Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Legend of the Christmas Rose & Other Christmas Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMadame How and Lady Why Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTHIS WAY TO CHRISTMAS - Stories for when you're snowed in at Christmas Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTales from Shakespeare Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAmong the Farmyard People: With linked Table of Contents Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Freckles Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The Wonder Clock: (Illustrated) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIn November Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Book of Golden Deeds Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Burgess Bird Book for Children (Illustrated): Educational & Warmhearted Nature Stories for the Youngest Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWild Animals at Home Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPollyanna Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5An Owl without a Name Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Beacon Second Reader Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWild Animals I Have Known Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fun Grammar for Children Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Little Duke Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Poor Richard Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Children's Classics For You
Sideways Stories from Wayside School Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: The Classic Fantasy Adventure Series (Official Edition) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Little House on the Prairie Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pete the Kitty and the Unicorn's Missing Colors Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Baby Bear, Baby Bear, What Do You See? Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Winnie the Pooh: The Classic Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Little House in the Big Woods Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Silver Chair: The Classic Fantasy Adventure Series (Official Edition) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Prince Caspian: The Classic Fantasy Adventure Series (Official Edition) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Stuart Little Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mr. Popper's Penguins Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Secret Garden: The 100th Anniversary Edition with Tasha Tudor Art and Bonus Materials Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Coraline Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Coraline 10th Anniversary Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5House of Many Ways Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bridge to Terabithia Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Wind in the Willows - Illustrated by Arthur Rackham Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Phantom Tollbooth Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Tower Treasure: The Hardy Boys Book 1 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: The Classic Fantasy Adventure Series (Official Edition) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Alice In Wonderland: The Original 1865 Unabridged and Complete Edition (Lewis Carroll Classics) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWe Have Always Lived in the Castle Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Horse and His Boy: The Classic Fantasy Adventure Series (Official Edition) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Alice in Wonderland: Down the Rabbit Hole Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Trumpet of the Swan Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Graveyard Book Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last Battle: The Classic Fantasy Adventure Series (Official Edition) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wayside School Is Falling Down Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Sarah, Plain and Tall: A Newbery Award Winner Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for A Child's Garden of Verses
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
A Child's Garden of Verses - Robert Louis Stevenson
A CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES
Illustrated
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Copyright © 2017 Robert Louis Stevenson
Amazing Classics
All rights reserved.
A CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES
Verse 142
Illustrated by
Jessie Willcox Smith
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, New York
1905
TO ALISON CUNNINGHAM
FROM HER BOY
For the long nights you lay awake And watched for my unworthy sake: For your most comfortable hand That led me through the uneven land: For all the story-books you read: For all the pains you comforted:
For all you pitied, all you bore, In sad and happy days of yore:— My second Mother, my first Wife, The angel of my infant life— From the sick child, now well and old, Take, nurse, the little book you hold!
And grant it, Heaven, that all who read May find as dear a nurse at need, And every child who lists my rhyme, In the bright, fireside, nursery clime, May hear it in as kind a voice As made my childish days rejoice!
R. L. S.
THE ORIGINAL
TITLE PAGE
FOR
A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES
BY
JESSIE WILLCOX SMITH
ILLUSTRATIONS
FROM DRAWINGS IN COLOR BY JESSIE WILLCOX SMITH
Bed in Summer
In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light.
Foreign Lands
I held the trunk with both my hands And looked abroad on foreign lands.
The Land of Counterpane
I was the giant great and still That sits upon the pillow-hill,
My Shadow
He stays so close beside me, he's a coward you can see; I'd think shame to stick to nursie as that shadow sticks to me!
Foreign Children
Little Indian, Sioux or Crow, Little frosty Eskimo, Little Turk or Japanee, Oh! don't you wish that you were me?
Looking-glass River
We can see our coloured faces Floating on the shaken pool
The Hayloft
Oh, what a joy to clamber there, Oh, what a place for play, With the sweet, the dim, the dusty air, The happy hills of hay!
North-west Passage
And face with an undaunted tread The long black passage up to bed.
Picture-books in Winter
Water now is turned to stone Nurse and I can walk upon; Still we find the flowing brooks In the picture story-books.
The Little Land
I have just to shut my eyes To go sailing through the skies— To go sailing far away To the pleasant Land of Play;
The Flowers
All the names I know from nurse: Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse, Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock, And the Lady Hollyhock.