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    New Poems

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    Release dateAug 1, 2008
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    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.

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      New Poems - Robert Louis Stevenson

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      Title: New Poems

             and Variant Readings

      Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

      Release Date: February 12, 2013  [eBook #441]

      [This file was first posted on January 6, 1996]

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      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NEW POEMS***

      Transcribed from the 1918 Chatto & Windus edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

      New Poems

      AND VARIANT READINGS

      BY

      ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

      LONDON

      CHATTO & WINDUS

      1918

      PREFACE

      All Stevensonians owe a debt of gratitude to the Bibliophile Society of Boston for having discovered the following poems and given them light in a privately printed edition, thus making them known, in fact, to the world at large.  Otherwise they would have remained scattered and hidden indefinitely in the hands of various collectors.  They will be found extraordinarily interesting in their self-revelation, and some, indeed, are so intimate and personal that one understands why Stevenson withheld them from all eyes save his own.  The love-poems in particular, though they are of very unequal merit, possess in common a really affecting sincerity.  That Stevenson should have preserved these poems through all the vicissitudes of his wandering life shows how dearly he must have valued them; and shows, too, I think, beyond any contradiction, that he meant they should be ultimately published.

      LLOYD OSBOURNE.

      CONTENTS

      PRAYER

      I ask good things that I detest,

         With speeches fair;

      Heed not, I pray Thee, Lord, my breast,

         But hear my prayer.

      I say ill things I would not say—

         Things unaware:

      Regard my breast, Lord, in Thy day,

         And not my prayer.

      My heart is evil in Thy sight:

         My good thoughts flee:

      O Lord, I cannot wish aright—

         Wish Thou for me.

      O bend my words and acts to Thee,

         However ill,

      That I, whate’er I say or be,

         May serve Thee still.

      O let my thoughts abide in Thee

         Lest I should fall:

      Show me Thyself in all I see,

         Thou Lord of all.

      LO! IN THINE HONEST EYES I READ

      Lo! in thine honest eyes I read

      The auspicious beacon that shall lead,

      After long sailing in deep seas,

      To quiet havens in June ease.

      Thy voice sings like an inland bird

      First by the seaworn sailor heard;

      And like road sheltered from life’s sea

      Thine honest heart is unto me.

      THOUGH DEEP INDIFFERENCE

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