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Portraits of Robert Louis Stevenson – Family
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Portraits of Robert Louis Stevenson
My Bed is a Boat by Robert Louis Stevenson
from A child’s garden of verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1919 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…
Read MoreThe Little Land – Illustration by Jessie Willcox Smith
The Little Land from A child’s garden of verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1905 When at home alone I sit And am very tired of it, I have just to shut my eyes To go sailing through the skies – To go sailing far away To the pleasant Land of Play; To the fairy land…
Read MorePicture Books in Winter – Illustration by Jessie Willcox Smith
Picture Books in Winter Summer fading, winter comes – Frosty mornings, tingling thumbs, Window robins, winter rooks, And the picture story-books. Water now is turned to stone Nurse and I can walk upon; Still we find the flowing brooks In the picture story-books. All the pretty things put by, Wait upon the children’s eye, Sheep…
Read MoreThe Rain by Robert Louis Stevenson
Rain from A child’s garden of verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1905 The rain is raining all around, It falls on field and tree, It rains on the umbrellas here, And on the ships at sea.
Read MoreThe Flowers – Illustration by Jessie Willcox Smith
The Flowers from A child’s garden of verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1905 All the names I know from nurse: Gardener’s garters, Shepherd’s purse, Bachelor’s buttons, Lady’s smock, And the Lady Hollyhock. Fairy places, fairy things, Fairy woods where the wild bee wings, Tiny trees for tiny dames – These must all be fairy names!…
Read MoreLooking Glass River – Illustration by Jessie Willcox Smith
Looking Glass River from A child’s garden of verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1905 Smooth it glides upon its travel, Here a wimple, there a gleam – O the clean gravel! O the smooth stream! Sailing blossoms, silver fishes, Paven pools as clear as air – How a child wishes To live down there! We…
Read MoreMy Shadow – Illustration by Jessie Willcox Smith
My Shadow from A child’s garden of verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1905 I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see. He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head; And I see…
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