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by Charles Robinson,Robert Louis Stevenson
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ISBN: 0486470016 Dover Publications Price: $20.00 |
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Generations have gone "up in a swing, up in the air so blue" with these timeless poems, savoring their images of the delights, fears, and wonders of childhood. A keepsake treasure, this new unabridged hardcover edition features ornate foil stamping on the cover, a handsome vellum dust jacket, and a ribbon place marker, in addition to 100 enchanting pen-and-ink drawings.
Reprint of the Charles Scribner's Sons, London, 1902 edition.
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Table of Contents for A Child's Garden of Verses
Bed in Summer A Thought At the Seaside 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 Happy Thought The Wind Keepsake Mill Good and Bad Children Foreign Children The Sun's 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: 1. Good Night 2. Shadow March 3. 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