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A Child's Garden of Verses is a collection of poetry for children about childhood, illness, play and solitude by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The collection first appeared in 1885 under the title Penny Whistles, but has been reprinted many times, often in illustrated versions. It contains about 65 poems including the cherished classics "Foreign Children," "The Lamplighter," "The Land of Counterpane," "Bed in Summer," "My Shadow" and "The Swing."
The classical scholar Terrot Reaveley Glover published a translation of the poems into Latin in 1922 under the title Carmina non prius audita de ludis et hortis virginibus puerisque.
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Poems
Part I - A Child's Garden of Verses
- To Alison Cunningham
- Bed in Summer
- A Thought
- At the Sea-side
- Young Night Thought
- Whole Duty of Children
- Rain
- Pirate Story (poem)
- Foreign Lands
- Windy Nights
- Travelling
- 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
- Northwest Passage: Good Night, Shadow March, 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
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Adaptations
- Disneyland Record released a LP record of the poems set to music. Gwyn Conger wrote the music which was performed by Francis Archer and Beverly Gile.
- The Italian composer Carlo Deri composed, in 2005, a song for voice and piano, The Unseen Playmate, on Stevenson's poem. This song is also included in Deri's one-act opera Markheim (2008).
- The contemporary Lithuanian composer Giedrius Alkauskas (b. 1978) arranged five poems--"The Wind" (two alternative arrangements), "Rain", "Singing", "Marching Song", and "At the Sea-side"--as a six-song cycle, "A Child's Garden of Songs", for mezzo-soprano, piano, and trumpet in B?, released in 2014.
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References
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External links
- A Child's Garden of Verses at Bartleby.com
- A Child's Garden of Verses from the Collections of the Library of Congress
- The CD "Kirschbaumtage / Cherry Tree Days" on the artists homepage
- A Child's Garden of Verses public domain audiobook at LibriVox
- A Child's Garden of Verses at Project Gutenberg - no bibliographic data, no images
- (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1895; John Lane, 1895), illustrated by Charles Robinson
- (Rand McNally, 1928; (c)R.H. Russell, 1900, and Rand McNally, 1902), illus. E. Mars and M. H. Squire
- (Dodge Publishing, 1905), illus. Bessie Collins Pease
- (Scribner's, 1905), illus. Jessie Willcox Smith
- (David McKay, [1908]), illus. Millicent Sowerby
- (M.A. Donahue, 1916), illus. Myrtle Sheldon (born 1893)
- (J.B. Lippincott, undated 5th printing; (c)1919), illus. Maria L. Kirk (1860-1938)
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