Robert Louis Stevenson Poems (210 Poems)
After Reading Antony and Cleopatra (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
AS when the hunt by holt and fieldDrives on with horn and strife,Hunger of hopeless things pursuesOur spirits throughout life. The sea’s roar fills us aching fullOf objectless desire -The sea’s roar, and the white moon-shine,And the reddening of the … Continue reading
A Good Boy (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
I woke before the morning, I was happy all the day, I never said an ugly word, but smiled and stuck to play. And now at last the sun is going down behind the wood, And I am very happy, … Continue reading
A Good Play (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
We built a ship upon the stairs All made of the back-bedroom chairs, And filled it full of soft pillows To go a-sailing on the billows. We took a saw and several nails, And water in the nursery pails; And … Continue reading
A Thought (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
It is very nice to think The world is full of meat and drink, With little children saying grace In every Christian kind of place. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
A Valentine’s Song (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
MOTLEY I count the only wear That suits, in this mixed world, the truly wise, Who boldly smile upon despair And shake their bells in Grandam Grundy’s eyes. Singers should sing with such a goodly cheer That the bare listening … Continue reading
About The Sheltered Garden Ground (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
ABOUT the sheltered garden ground The trees stand strangely still. The vale ne’er seemed so deep before, Nor yet so high the hill. An awful sense of quietness, A fulness of repose, Breathes from the dewy garden-lawns, The silent garden … Continue reading
Ad Magistrum Ludi (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
NOW in the sky And on the hearth of Now in a drawer the direful cane, That sceptre of the . . . reign, And the long hawser, that on the back Of Marsyas fell with many a whack, Twice … Continue reading
Ad Martialem (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
GO(D) knows, my Martial, if we two could be To enjoy our days set wholly free; To the true life together bend our mind, And take a furlough from the falser kind. No rich saloon, nor palace of the great, … Continue reading
Ad Nepotem (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
O NEPOS, twice my neigh(b)our (since at home We’re door by door, by Flora’s temple dome; And in the country, still conjoined by fate, Behold our villas standing gate by gate), Thou hast a daughter, dearer far than life – … Continue reading
Ad Olum (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
CALL me not rebel, though { here at every word {in what I sing If I no longer hail thee { King and Lord { Lord and King I have redeemed myself with all I had, And now possess my … Continue reading
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