A Child's Garden of Verses E-Book

Robert Louis Stevenson

• Herausgeber: Seltzer Books
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Serie: childsgardenofverses.jpg
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Seitenzahl: 42

Beschreibung

80 illustrations, some color, some black-and-white. According to Wikipedia: "A Child's Garden of Verses is a collection of poetry for children by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. 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."

Leseprobe

A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith

published by Samizdat Express, Orange, CT, USA

established in 1974, offering over 14,000 books

Books by Robert Louis Stevenson:

Across the Plains

The Art of Writing

Ballads

Black Arrow

The Bottle Imp

Catriona or David Balfour (sequel to Kidnapped)

A Child's Garden of Verses

The Ebb-Tide

Edinburgh

Essays

Essays of Travel

Fables

Familiar Studies of Men and Books

Father Damien

Footnote to History

In the South Seas

An Inland Voyage

Island Nights' Entertainments

Kidnapped

Lay Morals

Letters

Lodging for the Night

Markheim

Master of Ballantrae

Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin

Memories and Portraits

Merry Men

Moral Emblems

New Arabian Nights

New Poems

The Pavilion on the Links

Four Plays

The Pocket R. L. S.

Prayers Written at Vailima

Prince Otto

Records of a Family of Engineers

The Sea Fogs

The Silverado Squatters

Songs of Travel

St. Ives

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Tales and Fantasies

Thrawn Janet

Travels with a Donkey

Treasure Island

Underwoods

Vailima Letters

Virginibus Puerisque

The Waif Woman

Weir of Hermiston

The Wrecker

The Wrong Box

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Originally published by

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, New York

Copyright, 1905, By CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONSPrinted in the United States of AmericaAll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without the permission of Charles Scribner's Sons 

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.

BED IN SUMMER

In winter I get up at night

And dress by yellow candle-light.

In summer quite the other way,

I have to go to bed by day.

I have to go to bed and see

The birds still hopping on the tree,

Or hear the grown-up people's feet

Still going past me in the street.

And does it not seem hard to you,

When all the sky is clear and blue,

And I should like so much to play,

To have to go to bed by day?

Mary

Hans

A THOUGHT

It is very nice to think

The world is full of meat and drink,

With little children saying grace

In every Christian kind of place.

Biddy

Fifine

BED IN SUMMER

AT THE SEA-SIDE

 When I was down beside the sea

A wooden spade they gave to me

     To dig the sandy shore.

My holes were empty like a cup.

In every hole the sea came up,

     Till it could come no more.

YOUNG NIGHT-THOUGHT

All night long and every night,

When my mama puts out the light,

I see the people marching by,

As plain as day before my eye.

Armies and emperor and kings,

All carrying different kinds of things,

And marching in so grand a way,

You never saw the like by day.

So fine a show was never seen

At the great circus on the green;

For every kind of beast and man

Is marching in that caravan.

As first they move a little slow,

But still the faster on they go,

And still beside me close I keep

Until we reach the town of Sleep.

WHOLE DUTY OF CHILDREN

A child should always say what's true

And speak when he is spoken to,

And behave mannerly at table;

At least as far as he is able.

RAIN

The rain is falling all around,

     It falls on field and tree,

It rains on the umbrellas here,

     And on the ships at sea.

PIRATE STORY

Three of us afloat in the meadow by the swing,

     Three of us abroad in the basket on the lea.

Winds are in the air, they are blowing in the spring,

     And waves are on the meadow like the waves there are at sea.

Where shall we adventure, to-day that we're afloat,

     Wary of the weather and steering by a star?

Shall it be to Africa, a-steering of the boat,

     To Providence, or Babylon or off to Malabar?

Hi!  but here's a squadron a-rowing on the sea--

     Cattle on the meadow a-charging with a roar!

Quick, and we'll escape them, they're as mad as they can be,