A Child’s Garden of Verses (Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith)
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A Child’s Garden of Verses (Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith) - Robert Louis Stevenson
A CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES
By ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Illustrated by JESSIE WILLCOX SMITH
A Child’s Garden of Verses
By Robert Louis Stevenson
By Jessie Willcox Smith
Print ISBN 13: 978-1-4209-5468-5
eBook ISBN 13: 978-1-4209-5469-2
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Cover Image: a detail of an illustration from A Child’s Garden of Verses
by Jessie Willcox Smith. Scribner, New York, 1905.
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CONTENTS
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 of Counterpane
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 Travels
XXX. The Lamplighter
XXXI. My Bed is a Boat
XXXII. The Moon
XXXIII. 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.
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
NOTES TO THE ILLUSTRATIONS
The illustrations in this edition by Jessie Willcox Smith originally appeared in a 1905 edition of A Child’s Garden of Verses
published by Scribner, New York. The illustrations which originally appeared in color are reproduced in grayscale for the print edition and color for the electronic edition.
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