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Poetry

Robert Louis Stevenson

  • Poetry
  • Book language: English
  • 689 pages

A poetry collection by Robert Louis Stevenson. The opening lines are playful and personal: they contrast different tastes in drink, reading, and humour (“Not I”), then turn to the making of a small book in Davos. It is worth listening for its rhythm, wit, and intimate reflections on poetry and readership.

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Text source: standardebooks.org · The work is in the public domain.

Contents

  1. Not I
  2. Here, Perfect to a Wish
  3. As Seamen on the Seas
  4. The Pamphlet Here Presented
  5. See How the Children in the Print
  6. Reader, Your Soul Upraise to See
  7. A Peak in Darien
  8. See in the Print, How Moved by Whim
  9. Mark, Printed on the Opposing Page
  10. With Storms A-Weather, Rocks A-Lee
  11. The Careful Angler Chose His Nook
  12. The Abbot for a Walk Went Out
  13. The Frozen Peaks He Once Explored
  14. Industrious Pirate! See Him Sweep
  15. A Martial Elegy for Some Lead Soldiers
  16. Proem
  17. The Precarious Mill
  18. The Disputatious Pines
  19. The Tramps
  20. The Foolhardy Geographer
  21. The Angler & The Clown
  22. Robin and Ben
  23. The Builder’s Doom
  24. To Alison Cunningham
  25. Bed in Summer
  26. A Thought
  27. At the Sea-Side
  28. Young Night Thought
  29. Whole Duty of Children
  30. Rain

and 334 more chapters

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