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Robert Louis Stevenson's Poetry, by title

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  • A Good Boy
    I woke before the morning, I was happy all the day,
    I never said an ugly word, but smiled and stuck to play.
    10 lines, 2 comments
  • A Good Play
    We built a ship upon the stairs
    All made of the back-bedroom chairs,
    14 lines, 1 comment
  • A Thought
    It is very nice to think
    The world is full of meat and drink,
    4 lines, 2 comments
  • 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
  • Armies in the Fire
    The lamps now glitter down the street;
    Faintly sound the falling feet;
    20 lines, 2 comments
  • 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
  • At the Sea-Side
    When I was down beside the sea
    A wooden spade they gave to me
    6 lines
  • Auntie's Skirts
    Whenever Auntie moves around,
    Her dresses make a curious sound,
    4 lines
  • Autumn Fires
    In the other gardens
    And all up the vale,
    12 lines
  • Away With Funeral Music
    AWAY with funeral music - set
    The pipe to powerful lips -
    4 lines
  • Bed in Summer
    In winter I get up at night
    And dress by yellow candle-light.
    12 lines, 4 comments
  • 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
  • Block City
    What are you able to build with your blocks?
    Castles and palaces, temples and docks.
    28 lines, 1 comment
  • Christmas at Sea
    The sheets were frozen hard, and they cut the naked hand;
    The decks were like a slide, where a seaman scarce could stand;
    53 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
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