A Child's Garden of Verses and Underwoods
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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1913 Original Publisher: Current Literature Pub. Subjects: Juvenile Nonfiction / Poetry / General Juvenile Nonfiction / Poetry / Nursery Rhymes Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprin...
MoreGeneral Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1913 Original Publisher: Current Literature Pub. Subjects: Juvenile Nonfiction / Poetry / General Juvenile Nonfiction / Poetry / Nursery Rhymes Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie j Glad did I live and gladly die And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: ' Here he lies where he longed to be, Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill.' " -- R. L. S. WHEN Robert Louis Stevenson was thirty-three, he surprised his old nurse, " Cummie," with the announcement that he meant to dedicate to her his first volume of poetry. She, he told her, in the letter from Nice containing this news, was the only person who would really understand it. " He must have felt that he was doing a piece of work altogether admirable," is the comment of Professor William P. Trent upon this pretty incident, and, adds this subtle critic, " he made a wonderfully successful book because he based it on real experience" -- he had taken walks in " A Child's Garden of Verses," swung in its trees, peeped over its wall. Marred as his boyhood had been by illness, adds Professor Trent, " it had been that rare thing in these modern days," a true childhood. For that one reason was it possible for him to produce such a masterpiece of verse for the young as that beginning : " We built a ship upon the stairs." " Underwoods " was a book of poetry for older readers, brought out simultaneously in London and New York. It went in...
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