
A Child's Garden of Verses
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Here is a classic, illustrated edition of one of the best loved poetry collections in the world. Lavishly illustrated with more than 100 pictures by the most distinguished children's book artists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this edition of A Child's Garden of Verses contains all the poems that appeared in the original book, published over 100 years ago.This is a volume to be cherished for a lifetime: by parents and by grandparents who grew up with the poems and, most of all, by children who are being introduced to this extraordinary collection for the first time.
Chapters (317)
- A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES
- "Stories All Children Love"
- A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES
- ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
- ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOR BY MARIA L. KIRK
- PHILADELPHIA AND LONDON J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
- TO ALISON CUNNINGHAM
- FROM HER BOY
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES
- I
- BED IN SUMMER
- II
- A THOUGHT
- III
- AT THE SEASIDE
- IV
- YOUNG NIGHT THOUGHT
- V
- WHOLE DUTY OF CHILDREN
- VI
- RAIN
- VII
- PIRATE STORY
- VIII
- FOREIGN LANDS
- IX
- WINDY NIGHTS
- X
- TRAVEL
- XI
- SINGING
- XII
- LOOKING FORWARD
- XIII
- A GOOD PLAY
- XIV
- WHERE GO THE BOATS?
- XV
- AUNTIE'S SKIRTS
- XVI
- THE LAND OF COUNTERPANE
- XVII
- THE LAND OF NOD
- XVIII
- MY SHADOW
- XIX
- SYSTEM
- XX
- A GOOD BOY
- XXI
- ESCAPE AT BEDTIME
- XXII
- MARCHING SONG
- XXIII
- THE COW
- XXIV
- HAPPY THOUGHT
- XXV
- THE WIND
- XXVI
- KEEPSAKE MILL
- XXVII
- GOOD AND BAD CHILDREN
- XXVIII
- FOREIGN CHILDREN
- XXIX
- THE SUN'S TRAVELS
- XXX
- THE LAMPLIGHTER
- XXXI
- MY BED IS A BOAT
- XXXII
- THE MOON
- XXXIII
- THE SWING
- XXXIV
- TIME TO RISE
- XXXV
- LOOKING-GLASS RIVER
- XXXVI
- FAIRY BREAD
- XXXVII
- FROM A RAILWAY CARRIAGE
- XXXVIII
- WINTER-TIME
- XXXIX
- THE HAYLOFT
- XL
- FAREWELL TO THE FARM
- XLI
- NORTH-WEST PASSAGE
- 1. GOOD NIGHT
- 2. SHADOW MARCH
- 3. IN PORT
- THE CHILD ALONE
- I
- THE UNSEEN PLAYMATE
- II
- MY SHIP AND I
- III
- MY KINGDOM
- IV
- PICTURE-BOOKS IN WINTER
- V
- MY TREASURES
- VI
- BLOCK CITY
- VII
- THE LAND OF STORY-BOOKS
- VIII
- ARMIES IN THE FIRE
- IX
- THE LITTLE LAND
- GARDEN DAYS
- I
- NIGHT AND DAY
- II
- NEST EGGS
- III
- THE FLOWERS
- IV
- SUMMER SUN
- V
- THE DUMB SOLDIER
- VI
- AUTUMN FIRES
- VII
- THE GARDENER
- VIII
- HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS
- ENVOYS
- I
- TO WILLIE AND HENRIETTA
- II
- TO MY MOTHER
- III
- TO AUNTIE
- IV
- TO MINNIE
- V
- TO MY NAME-CHILD
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