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
[Illustration]

Bed in Summer

In winter I get up at night

And dress by yellow candle-light.

In summer, quite the other way,

I have to go to bed by day.

I have to go to bed and see

The birds still hopping on the tree,

Or hear the grown-up people's feet

Still going past me in the street.

And does it not seem hard to you,

When all the sky is clear and blue,

And I should like so much to play,

To have to go to bed by day?


[Illustration]


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