A Child's Garden of Verses

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A Child's Garden of Verses
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First edition cover
Author Robert Louis Stevenson
LanguageEnglish
GenrePoetry collection
Publisher Longmans, Green, & Co [1]
Publication date
1885 [1]
Pages101 [1]
Text A Child's Garden of Verses at Wikisource
Title page of a 1916 US edition A Child's Garden of Verses , Fassung von 1916.jpg
Title page of a 1916 US edition

A Child's Garden of Verses is an 1885 volume of 64 poems for children by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. It has been reprinted many times, often in illustrated versions, and is considered to be one of the most influential children's works of the 19th century. [2] The poems, which have been widely imitated, are written from the point of view of a child. Stevenson dedicated the collection to his childhood nurse, Alison Cunningham. [2]

Contents

Contents

One of the poems, "Happy Thought", as used in A Little Book for A Little Cook, 1905 A Little Book for A Little Cook, image 13.jpg
One of the poems, "Happy Thought", as used in A Little Book for A Little Cook, 1905

A Child's Garden of Verses

  • "Bed in Summer"
  • "A Thought"
  • "At the Sea-side"
  • "Young Night Thought"
  • "Whole Duty of Children"
  • "Rain"
  • "Pirate Story"
  • "Foreign Lands"
  • "Windy Nights"
  • "Travelling"
  • "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"
  • "Northwest Passage: Good Night, Shadow March, 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"

Publication

Inspired by a children's book of 1880, the collection was originally to be called Penny Whistles [2] but was ultimately published by Longmans, Green, & Co in 1885 as A Child's Garden of Verses. [1]

Adaptations

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "A Child's Garden of Verses". Abe Books. Retrieved 4 April 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 Kuiper, Kathleen (23 March 2011). "A Child's Garden of Verses". Britannica. Archived from the original on 1 August 2015. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
  3. ↑ "A child's garden of verses". Archive.org. Retrieved 31 August 2017.
  4. ↑ Johnson, Jimmy (27 March 1971). "The Disneyland Records Story". Billboard. p. D-2. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
  5. ↑ "Carlo Deri – Markheim". Teatrodioisa.pi.it. Retrieved 31 August 2017.
  6. ↑ "Score of "A Child's Garden of Songs" on IMSLP". Imslp.org. Retrieved 31 August 2017.
  7. ↑ "Recordings of the cycle "A Child's Garden of Songs"". YouTube . Retrieved 31 August 2017.
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