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A Child's Garden of Verses

by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)

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  • 35 min read
  • 53 chapters
  • Reading level: 6th grade

"A Child's Garden of Verses" by Robert Louis Stevenson is a collection of 64 poems published in 1885. Written from a child's perspective, these verses capture the world of childhood imagination and play. The Scottish author dedicated this influential work to his childhood nurse, Alison Cunningham. The collection has been reprinted countless times in illustrated editions and widely imitated, cementing its place as one of the most significant children's works of the 19th century.

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  • Children's poetry, English

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Chapter I

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?

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Contents

Show all 53 chapters
  1. Front Matter
  2. Chapter I
  3. Chapter IV
  4. Chapter VII
  5. Chapter VIII
  6. Chapter IX
  7. Chapter X
  8. Chapter XIII
  9. Chapter XIV
  10. Chapter XVI
  11. Chapter XVII
  12. Chapter XVIII
  13. Chapter XIX
  14. Chapter XX
  15. Chapter XXI
  16. Chapter XXII
  17. Chapter XXIII
  18. Chapter XXV
  19. Chapter XXVI
  20. Chapter XXVII
  21. Chapter XXVIII
  22. Chapter XXIX
  23. Chapter XXX
  24. Chapter XXXI
  25. Chapter XXXII
  26. Chapter XXXIII
  27. Chapter XXXV
  28. Chapter XXXVII
  29. Chapter XXXVIII
  30. Chapter XXXIX
  31. Chapter XL
  32. Chapter XLI
  33. Chapter I
  34. Chapter II
  35. Chapter III
  36. Chapter IV
  37. Chapter V
  38. Chapter VI
  39. Chapter VII
  40. Chapter VIII
  41. Chapter IX
  42. Chapter I
  43. Chapter II
  44. Chapter III
  45. Chapter IV
  46. Chapter V
  47. Chapter VI
  48. Chapter VII
  49. Chapter VIII
  50. Chapter I
  51. Chapter IV
  52. Chapter V
  53. Chapter VI

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This free edition of A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #25611, released 2008-05-26. It is in the public domain in the United States, so you can read it here in full at no cost, on any phone, tablet or computer. Genre: Children & Young Adult Reading, Poetry, British Literature.

Other editions: eBook #136 (most read), eBook #19722, eBook #25608, eBook #25609, eBook #25610, eBook #25617.

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