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A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
"The Land of Counterpane," "My Bed is a Boat," "The Land of Nod" and over 60 other poems children and their parents have cherished for over a century. Humorous and whimsical, grave and fearful, courageous and determined, these poems voice many moods. Reprinted in large, easy-to-read type, with 6 new illustrations.
Table of Contents for A Child’s Garden of Verses
| TO ALISON CUNNINGHAM | | 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 ofCounterpane | | 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. Happy Thought | | XXV. The Wind | | XXVI. Keepsake Mill | | XXVII. Good and Bad Children | | XXVIII. Foreign Children | | XXIX. The Sun's Travels | | XXX. The Lamplighter | | XXXI. My Bed Is a Boat | | XXXII. The Moon | | XXIII. 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 | | GARDEN DAYS | | I. Night and Day | | II. Nest Eggs | | III. The Flowers | | IV. Summer Sun | | V. The Dumb Soldier | | VI. Autumn Fires | | VII. The Gardener | | VIII. Historical Associations | | ENVOYS | | I. To Willie and Henrietta | | II. To My Mother | | III. To Auntie | | IV. To Minnie | | V. To My Name-Child | | VI. To Any Reader | | | Alphabetical List of Titles | | Alphabetical List of First Lines |
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