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A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES
By ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
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With illustrations by Bessie Collins Pease
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NEW YORK DODGE PUBLISHING COMPANY 220 East 23d Street
Copyright, 1905, by Dodge Publishing Company.
First edition, March, 1905 Second edition, January, 1906 Third edition, January, 1907 Fourth edition, October, 1908
A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES
CONTENTS
PAGE
Armies in the Fire 90
At the Sea-Side opposite 30
Auntie's Skirts 29
Autumn Fires 89
Bed in Summer 11
Block City 73
Child Alone, The 63
Cow, The 32
Dumb Soldier, The 94
Escape at Bed-Time 30
Envoys 99
Fairy Bread 47
Farewell to the Farm 54
Flowers, The 88
Foreign Children 42
Foreign Lands 15
From a Railway Carriage 48
Garden Days 81
Gardener, The 96
Good and Bad Children 40
Good Boy, A 29
Good Night 57
Good Play, A 22
Happy Thought 33
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A Child's Garden of Verses by Stevenson
- 2: A Child's Garden of Verses by Stevenson
- 3: And marching in so grand a way
- 4: Why does he gallop and gallop about
- 5: The pleasant land of counterpane
- 6: With lots of toys and things to eat
- 7: No ugly dream shall fright my mind
- 8: THE COW The friendly cow all red and white
- 9: Sounds of the village grow stiller and stiller
- 10: And birdies asleep in the forks of the trees
- 11: Here is the child who clambers and scrambles
- 12: O hayloft where the cobwebs cling
- 13: And the dolly I intend to come alive
- 14: Illustration PICTURE BOOKS IN WINTER Summer fading
- 15: And the rain pools are the seas
- 16: In the hedges and the whins Sleeping birds a waking
- 17: The phantom armies marching go
- 18: He digs the flowers and cuts the hay
- 19: Flows past our childhood's garden still
- 20: Seeking shells and seaweed on the sands of Monterey
