Robert Louis Stevenson's Poetry, by first line

• A Valentine's Song

  MOTLEY I count the only wear
  That suits, in this mixed world, the truly wise,

  64 lines
• About The Sheltered Garden Ground

  ABOUT the sheltered garden ground
  The trees stand strangely still.

  20 lines, 4 comments
• Ad Magistrum Ludi

  NOW in the sky
  And on the hearth of

  11 lines
• Ad Martialem

  GO(D) knows, my Martial, if we two could be
  To enjoy our days set wholly free;

  15 lines
• Ad Nepotem

  O NEPOS, twice my neigh(b)our (since at home
  We're door by door, by Flora's temple dome;

  24 lines
• Ad Olum

  CALL me not rebel, though { here at every word
  {in what I sing

  14 lines
• Ad Piscatorem

  FOR these are sacred fishes all
  Who know that lord that is the lord of all;

  17 lines, 3 comments
• Ad Quintilianum

  O CHIEF director of the growing race,
  Of Rome the glory and of Rome the grace,

  11 lines
• Ad Se Ipsum

  DEAR sir, good-morrow! Five years back,
  When you first girded for this arduous track,

  9 lines
• After Reading "Antony And Cleopatra"

  AS when the hunt by holt and field
  Drives on with horn and strife,

  15 lines, 2 comments
• Air Of Diabelli's

  CALL it to mind, O my love.
  Dear were your eyes as the day,

  126 lines
• An English Breeze

  UP with the sun, the breeze arose,
  Across the talking corn she goes,

  20 lines, 2 comments
• Apologetic Postscript Of A Year Later

  IF you see this song, my dear,
  And last year's toast,

  24 lines
• As In Their Flight The Birds Of Song

  AS in their flight the birds of song
  Halt here and there in sweet and sunny dales,

  34 lines
• As One Who Having Wandered All Night Long

  AS one who having wandered all night long
  In a perplexed forest, comes at length

  27 lines, 2 comments
• At Last She Comes

  AT last she comes, O never more
  In this dear patience of my pain

  5 lines
• Away With Funeral Music

  AWAY with funeral music - set
  The pipe to powerful lips -

  4 lines
• Before This Little Gift Was Come

  BEFORE this little gift was come
  The little owner had made haste for home;

  9 lines
• Behold, As Goblins Dark Of Mien

  BEHOLD, as goblins dark of mien
  And portly tyrants dyed with crime

  30 lines
• Come From The Daisied Meadows

  HOME from the daisied meadows, where you linger yet -
  Home, golden-headed playmate, ere the sun is set;

  14 lines
• Come, Here Is Adieu To The City

  COME, here is adieu to the city
  And hurrah for the country again.

  18 lines
• Come, My Beloved, Hear From Me

  COME, my beloved, hear from me
  Tales of the woods or open sea.

  33 lines, 1 comment
• Home, My Little Children, Hear Are Songs For You

  COME, my little children, here are songs for you;
  Some are short and some are long, and all, all are new.

  10 lines
• De Coenatione Micae

  LOOK round: You see a little supper room;
  But from my window, lo! great Caesar's tomb!

  5 lines, 1 comment
• De Erotio Puella

  THIS girl was sweeter than the song of swans,
  And daintier than the lamb upon the lawns

  15 lines
• De Hortis Julii Martialis

  MY Martial owns a garden, famed to please,
  Beyond the glades of the Hesperides;

  31 lines
• De Ligurra

  YOU fear, Ligurra - above all, you long -
  That I should smite you with a stinging song.

  12 lines
• De M. Antonio

  NOW Antoninus, in a smiling age,
  Counts of his life the fifteenth finished stage.

  9 lines
• Death, To The Dead For Evermore

  DEATH, to the dead for evermore
  A King, a God, the last, the best of friends -

  28 lines
• Dedication

  MY first gift and my last, to you
  I dedicate this fascicle of songs -

  20 lines

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