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A Child's Garden of Verses

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Three of us afloat in the meadow by the swing, Three of us aboard in the basket on the lea. Winds are in the air, they are blowing in the spring, And waves are on the meadow like the waves there are at sea.…

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  • AuthorRobert Louis Stevenson
  • SourceProject Gutenberg #25609
  • Length8,392 words · 34 min of reading
  • Chapters66
  • DictionaryNot yet generated
  • CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
  • Source checked2026-08-28

Contents

66 chapters

Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.

  1. 01CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, _New York_
  2. 02Printed in the United States of America
  3. 03FROM HER BOY
  4. 04JESSIE WILLCOX SMITH
  5. 05BED IN SUMMER
  6. 06A THOUGHT
  7. 07AT THE SEA-SIDE
  8. 08YOUNG NIGHT-THOUGHT
  9. 09WHOLE DUTY OF CHILDREN
  10. 10RAIN
  11. 11PIRATE STORY
  12. 12FOREIGN LANDS
  13. 13WINDY NIGHTS
  14. 14TRAVEL
  15. 15SINGING
  16. 16LOOKING FORWARD
  17. 17A GOOD PLAY
  18. 18AUNTIE'S SKIRTS
  19. 19THE LAND OF COUNTERPANE
  20. 20THE LAND OF NOD
  21. 21MY SHADOW
  22. 22SYSTEM
  23. 23A GOOD BOY
  24. 24ESCAPE AT BEDTIME
  25. 25MARCHING SONG
  26. 26THE COW
  27. 27HAPPY THOUGHT
  28. 28THE WIND
  29. 29KEEPSAKE MILL
  30. 30GOOD AND BAD CHILDREN
  31. 31THE SUN TRAVELS
  32. 32THE LAMPLIGHTER
  33. 33MY BED IS A BOAT
  34. 34THE MOON
  35. 35THE SWING
  36. 36TIME TO RISE
  37. 37LOOKING-GLASS RIVER
  38. 38FAIRY BREAD
  39. 39FROM A RAILWAY CARRIAGE
  40. 40WINTER-TIME
  41. 41THE HAYLOFT
  42. 42FAREWELL TO THE FARM
  43. 43NORTH-WEST PASSAGE
  44. 44THE UNSEEN PLAYMATE
  45. 45MY SHIP AND I
  46. 46MY KINGDOM
  47. 47PICTURE-BOOKS IN WINTER
  48. 48MY TREASURES
  49. 49BLOCK CITY
  50. 50THE LAND OF STORY-BOOKS
  51. 51ARMIES IN THE FIRE
  52. 52THE LITTLE LAND
  53. 53NIGHT AND DAY
  54. 54NEST EGGS
  55. 55SUMMER SUN
  56. 56THE DUMB SOLDIER
  57. 57AUTUMN FIRES
  58. 58THE GARDENER
  59. 59HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS
  60. 60TO WILLIE AND HENRIETTA
  61. 61TO MY MOTHER
  62. 62TO AUNTIE
  63. 63TO MINNIE
  64. 64TO MY NAME-CHILD
  65. 65TO ANY READER
  66. 66THE SCRIBNER ILLUSTRATED CLASSICS

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