A Child's Garden of Verses: Selected Poems
Block City
by Robert Louis Stevenson
A child plays with furniture and imagination.
A child plays with furniture and imagination.
"Like the blush upon the rose"
Thy tones are silver melted into sound,
"My neighbor lives on the hill,"
Nature and the movement of clouds at dusk ignite the author's imagination.
SOON as the sun forsook the eastern main
After telling Mistress Crow how much he admires her, Master Fox is able to trick her into dropping her meal. Master Fox snaps it up and eats it. Mistress Crow learns a hard lesson about insincere compliments.
"Heel and toe, heel and toe,"
"Ther’ ain’t no use in all this strife,"
"If the muse were mine to tempt it"
Music to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly?
Love hath the wings of the butterfly,
Where art thou Muse that thou forget’st so long
Little Bear suggests that the three bears go out for a morning walk before breakfast. While walking, they find a campsite and try the food left in the pot. They discover a new love for prunes and sing a cheerful song about it.
Prometheus stole from Heaven the sacred fire
"Slow de night ’s a–fallin’,"
A reflection on one who is gone.
Night is for sorrow and dawn is for joy,
"October is the treasurer of the year,"
"Poor withered rose, she gave it me,"
THY various works, imperial queen, we see,
The speaker talks of her homesickness.
A rhyme that serves to tell children to behave through the song of a bird.
"Oh, the little bird is rocking in the cradle of the wind,"
"Ah, Nora, my Nora, the light fades away,"