Poetry

Name: Poetry
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson

Poetryabout 7 h 30 min of listening

A collection of poetry by Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson.

Imprint
Not I
Here, Perfect to a Wish
As Seamen on the Seas
The Pamphlet Here Presented
See How the Children in the Print
Reader, Your Soul Upraise to See
A Peak in Darien
See in the Print, How Moved by Whim
Mark, Printed on the Opposing Page
With Storms A-Weather, Rocks A-Lee
The Careful Angler Chose His Nook

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The Abbot for a Walk Went Out
The Frozen Peaks He Once Explored
Industrious Pirate! See Him Sweep
A Martial Elegy for Some Lead Soldiers
Proem
The Precarious Mill
The Disputatious Pines
The Tramps
The Foolhardy Geographer
The Angler & The Clown
Robin and Ben
The Builder’s Doom
To Alison Cunningham
Bed in Summer
A Thought
At the Sea-Side
Young Night Thought
Whole Duty of Children
Rain
Pirate Story
Foreign Lands
Windy Nights
Travel
Singing
Looking Forward
A Good Play
Where Go the Boats?
Auntie’s Skirts
The Land of Counterpane
The Land of Nod
My Shadow
System
A Good Boy
Escape at Bedtime
Marching Song
The Cow
Happy Thought
The Wind
Keepsake Mill
Good and Bad Children
Foreign Children
The Sun’s Travels
The Lamplighter
My Bed Is a Boat
The Moon
The Swing
Time to Rise
Looking-Glass River
Fairy Bread
From a Railway Carriage
Winter-Time
The Hayloft
Farewell to the Farm
I: Good Night
II: Shadow March
III: In Port
The Unseen Playmate
My Ship and I
My Kingdom
Picture-Books in Winter
My Treasures
Block City
The Land of Story-Books
Armies in the Fire
The Little Land
Night and Day
Nest Eggs
The Flowers
Summer Sun
The Dumb Soldier
Autumn Fires
The Gardener
Historical Associations
To Willie and Henrietta
To My Mother
To Auntie
To Minnie
To My Name-Child
To Any Reader
Envoy
A Song of the Road
The Canoe Speaks
It Is the Season Now to Go
The House Beautiful
A Visit from the Sea
To a Gardener
To Minnie
To K. de M.
To N. V. de G. S.
To Will. H. Low
To Mrs. Will. H. Low
To H. F. Brown
To Andrew Lang
Et Tu in Arcadia Vixisti
To W. E. Henley
Henry James
The Mirror Speaks
Katharine
To F. J. S.
Requiem
The Celestial Surgeon
Our Lady of the Snows
Not Yet, My Soul, These Friendly Fields Desert
It Is Not Yours, O Mother, to Complain
The Sick Child
In Memoriam F. A. S.
To My Father
In the States
A Portrait
Sing Clearlier, Muse, or Evermore Be Still
A Camp
The Country of the Camisards
Skerryvore
Skerryvore
“My House,” I Say. But Hark to the Sunny Doves
My Body Which My Dungeon Is
Say Not of Me That Weakly I Declined
The Song of Rahéro
I: The Slaying of Támatéa
II: The Venging of Támatéa
III: Rahéro
The Feast of Famine
I: The Priest’s Vigil
II: The Lovers
III: The Feast
IV: The Raid
Ticonderoga
I: The Saying of the Name
II: The Seeking of the Name
III: The Place of the Name
Heather Ale
Christmas at Sea
The Vagabond
Youth and Love—I
Youth and Love—II
In Dreams, Unhappy, I Behold You Stand
She Rested by the Broken Brook
The Infinite Shining Heavens
Plain as the Glistering Planets Shine
To You, Let Snow and Roses
Let Beauty Awake in the Morn from Beautiful Dreams
I Know Not How It Is with You
I Will Make You Brooches and Toys for Your Delight
We Have Loved of Yore
Mater Triumphans
Bright Is the Ring of Words
In the Highlands, in the Country Places
Home No More Home to Me, Whither Must I Wander? (To the Tune of Wandering Willie)
Winter
The Stormy Evening Closes Now in Vain
To Dr. Hake
To ———
The Morning Drum-Call on My Eager Ear
I Have Trod the Upward and the Downward Slope
He Hears with Gladdened Heart the Thunder
Farewell, Fair Day and Fading Light!
If This Were Faith
My Wife
To the Muse
To an Island Princess
To Kalakaua
To Princess Kaiulani
To Mother Maryanne
In Memoriam E. H.
To My Wife
To My Old Familiars
The Tropics Vanish, and Meseems That I
To S. C.
The House of Tembinoka
The Woodman
Tropic Rain
An End of Travel
We Uncommiserate Pass Into the Night
Sing Me a Song of a Lad That Is Gone
To S. R. Crockett
Evensong
The Light-Keeper
A Familiar Epistle
I: Far Have You Come, My Lady, from the Town
II: Nous N’Irons Plus Au Bois
III: Since I Am Sworn to Live My Life
IV: Of His Pitiable Transformation
The Susquehannah and the Delaware
Epistle to Albert Dew-Smith
Alcaics to Horatio F. Brown
A Lytle Jape of Tusherie
To Virgil and Dora Williams
Burlesque Sonnet
The Fine Pacific Islands
The Lesson of the Master
The Consecration of Braille
Song
Prayer
Lo! In Thine Honest Eyes I Read
Though Deep Indifference Should Drowse
My Heart, When First the Blackbird Sings
I Dreamed of Forest Alleys Fair
St. Martin’s Summer
Dedication
The Old Chimaeras, Old Receipts
Prelude
The Vanquished Knight
To the Commissioners of Northern Lights
The Relic Taken, What Avails the Shrine?
About the Sheltered Garden Ground
After Reading “Antony and Cleopatra”
I Know Not How, but as I Count
Spring Song
The Summer Sun Shone Round Me
You Looked So Tempting in the Pew
Love’s Vicissitudes
Duddingstone
Stout Marches Lead to Certain Ends
Away with Funeral Music
To Sydney
Had I the Power That Have the Will
O Dull Cold Northern Sky
Apologetic Postscript of a Year Later
To Marcus
To Ottilie
This Gloomy Northern Day
The Wind Is Without There and Howls in the Trees
A Valentine’s Song
Hail! Childish Slaves of Social Rules
Swallows Travel to and Fro
To Mesdames Zassetsky and Garschine
To Madame Garschine
Music at the Villa Marina
Fear Not, Dear Friend, but Freely Live Your Days
Let Love Go, if Go She Will
I Do Not Fear to Own Me Kin
I Am Like One That for Long Days Had Sat
Voluntary
On Now, Although the Year Be Done
In the Green and Gallant Spring
Death, to the Dead for Evermore
I Who All the Winter Through
Love, What Is Love?
Soon Our Friends Perish
As One Who Having Wandered All Night Long
Strange Are the Ways of Men
The Wind Blew Shrill and Smart
Man Sails the Deep Awhile
The Cock’s Clear Voice Into the Clearer Air
Now When the Number of My Years
What Man May Learn, What Man May Do
Small Is the Trust When Love Is Green
Know You the River Near to Grez
It’s Forth Across the Roaring Foam
An English Breeze
As in Their Flight the Birds of Song
The Piper
To Mrs. Macmarland
To Miss Cornish
Tales of Arabia
Behold, as Goblins Dark of Mien
Still I Love to Rhyme
Long Time I Lay in Little Ease
Flower God, God of the Spring
Come, My Beloved, Hear from Me
Since Years Ago for Evermore
Envoy for “A Child’s Garden of Verses”
For Richmond’s Garden Wall
Hail, Guest, and Enter Freely!
Lo, Now, My Guest
So Live, So Love, So Use That Fragile Hour
Ad Se Ipsum
Before This Little Gift Was Come
Go, Little Book—The Ancient Phrase
My Love Was Warm
Dedicatory Poem for “Underwoods”
Farewell
The Far-Farers
Come, My Little Children, Here Are Songs for You
Home from the Daisied Meadows
Early in the Morning I Hear on Your Piano
Fair Isle at Sea
Loud and Low in the Chimney
I Love to Be Warm by the Red Fireside
At Last She Comes
Mine Eyes Were Swift to Know Thee
Fixed Is the Doom
Men Are Heaven’s Piers
The Angler Rose, He Took His Rod
Spring Carol
To What Shall I Compare Her?
When the Sun Comes After Rain
Late, O Miller
To Friends at Home
I, Whom Apollo Sometime Visited
Tempest Tossed and Sore Afflicted
Variant Form of the Preceding Poem
I Now, O Friend, Whom Noiselessly the Snows
Since Thou Hast Given Me This Good Hope, O God
God Gave to Me a Child in Part
Over the Land Is April
Light as the Linnet on My Way I Start
Come, Here Is Adieu to the City
It Blows a Snowing Gale
Ne Sit Ancillæ Tibi Amor Pudor
To All That Love the Far and Blue
Thou Strainest Through the Mountain Fern
To Rosabelle
Now Bare to the Beholder’s Eye
Sonnets
Air of Diabelli’s
Epitaphium Erotii
De M. Antonio
Ad Magistrum Ludi
Ad Nepotem
In Charidemum
De Ligurra
In Lupum
Ad Quintilianum
De Hortis Julii Martialis
Ad Martialem
In Maximum
Ad Olum
De Cœnatione Micæ
De Erotio Puella
Ad Piscatorem
The Mill-House
The Well-Head
A Summer Night
Take Not My Hand as Mine Alone
All Influences Were in Vain
Death
The Moon Is Sinking—The Tempestuous Weather
The Whole Day Thro’, in Contempt and Pity
The Old World Moans and Topes
I Am Like One That Has Sat Alone
I Sit Up Here at Midnight
Link Your Arm in Mine, My Lad
I Have a Friend; I Have a Story
Hopes
To a Youth
Here He Comes, Big with Statistics
In Autumn When the Woods Are Red
The Look of Death Is Both Severe and Mild
Her Name Is as a Word of Old Romance
Light as My Heart Was Long Ago
Gather Ye Roses While Ye May
Since I Am Sworn to Live My Life
Poem for a Class Re-Union
I Saw Red Evening Through the Rain
Last Night We Had a Thunderstorm in Style
O Lady Fair and Sweet
If I Had Wings, My Lady, Like a Dove
All Night Through, Raves or Broods
The Rain Is Over and Done
There Where the Land of Love
Love Is the Very Heart of Spring
At Morning on the Garden Seat
If I Could Arise and Travel Away
Good Old Ale, Mild or Pale
Nay, but I Fancy Somehow, Year by Year
My Wife and I, in One Romantic Cot
Yes, I Remember, and Still Remember Wailing
Of Schooners, Islands and Maroons
Here Lies Erotion
To Priapus
Far Over Seas an Island Is
On the Gorgeous Hills of Morning
Rivers and Winds Among the Twisted Hills
I Am a Hunchback, Yellow Faced
I Look Across the Ocean
Endnotes
List of Illustrations
Colophon
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