A Child's Garden of Verses

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Table of Contents

Bed in Summer

A Thought

At the Sea-Side

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 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

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

Night and Day

Nest Eggs

The Flowers

Summer Sun

The Dumb Soldier

Autumn Fires

The Gardener

Historical Associations

To Willie and Henrietta

To My Mother

To Auntie

To Minnie

To My Name-Child

To Any Reader

At the Sea-Side

When I was down beside the sea
A wooden spade they gave to me
To dig the sandy shore.

My holes were empty like a cup.
In every hole the sea came up,
Till it could come no more.