Robert Louis Stevenson Poems (210 Poems)
Light As The Linnet On My Way I Start (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
LIGHT as the linnet on my way I start, For all my pack I bear a chartered heart. Forth on the world without a guide or chart, Content to know, through all man’s varying fates, The eternal woman by the … Continue reading
Lo! In Thine Honest Eyes I Read (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
LO! in thine honest eyes I read The auspicious beacon that shall lead, After long sailing in deep seas, To quiet havens in June ease. Thy voice sings like an inland bird First by the seaworn sailor heard; And like … Continue reading
Lo, Now, My Guest (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
LO, now, my guest, if aught amiss were said, Forgive it and dismiss it from your head. For me, for you, for all, to close the date, Pass now the ev’ning sponge across the slate; And to that spirit of … Continue reading
Long Time I Lay In Little Ease (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
LONG TIME I LAY IN LITTLE EASE LONG time I lay in little ease Where, placed by the Turanian, Marseilles, the many-masted, sees The blue Mediterranean. Now songful in the hour of sport, Now riotous for wages, She camps around … Continue reading
Looking Forward (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great, And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Looking-Glass River (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
Smooth it glides upon its travel, Here a wimple, there a gleam– O the clean gravel! O the smooth stream! Sailing blossoms, silver fishes, Pave pools as clear as air– How a child wishes To live down there! We can … Continue reading
Loud And Low In The Chimney (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
LOUD and low in the chimney The squalls suspire; Then like an answer dwindles And glows the fire, And the chamber reddens and darkens In time like taken breath. Near by the sounding chimney The youth apart Hearkens with changing … Continue reading
Love, What Is Love (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
LOVE – what is love? A great and aching heart; Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair. Life – what is life? Upon a moorland bare To see love coming and see love depart. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Love’s Vicissitudes (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
AS Love and Hope together Walk by me for a while, Link-armed the ways they travel For many a pleasant mile – Link-armed and dumb they travel, They sing not, but they smile. Hope leaving, Love commences To practise on … Continue reading
Man Sails The Deep Awhile (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
MAN sails the deep awhile; Loud runs the roaring tide; The seas are wild and wide; O’er many a salt, o’er many a desert mile, The unchained breakers ride, The quivering stars beguile. Hope bears the sole command; Hope, with … Continue reading
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