The 64 poems in A Child’s Garden of Verses are a masterly evocation of childhood from the pen of the author of Treasure Island and Kidnapped. They arc full of delightful irony, wit and the fantasy worlds of childhood imagination, and introduce for the first time The Land of Nod. But they are also touched with a genuine and gentle pathos at times as they recall a world which seems so far away form us now.
This edition, which includes Charles Robinson’s charming illustrations and vignettes, is described as the definitive edition by The Oxford Companion to Children’s Literature.
A CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES
Bed in Summer
A Thought
At the Seaside
Young Night Thought
Whole Duty of Children
Rain
Pirate Story
Foreign Lands
Windy Nights
Travels
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
North-West Passage
1. GoodNight
2. Shadow March
3. In Port
THE CHILD ALONE
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
GARDEN DAYS
Night and Day
Nest Eggs
The Flowers
Summer Sun
The Dumb Soldier
Autumn Fires
The Gardener
Historical Associations
ENVOYS
To Willie and Henrietta
To my Mother
To Auntie
To Minnie
To my Name-Child
To any Reader