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Robert Louis Stevenson: Collected Poems

Edited, with an introduction and notes, by Janet Adam Smith
Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)

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POEMS 1869–1879
 I. 
I Dedication
 II. 
II
 III. 
III After Reading ‘Antony and Cleopatra’
 IV. 
IV Spring-Song
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V
 VI. 
VI Duddingston
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VII
 VIII. 
VIII
 IX. 
IX
 X. 
X
 XI. 
XI Death
 XII. 
XII
 XIII. 
XIII Epistle to Charles Baxter
 XIV. 
XIV Consolation
 XV. 
XV To Sydney
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XVI
 XVII. 
XVII
 XVIII. 
XVIII
 XIX. 
XIX
 XX. 
XX
 XXI. 
XXI
 XXII. 
XXII
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XXIII The Light-Keeper
 XXIV. 
XXIV
 XXV. 
XXV The Cruel Mistress
 XXVI. 
XXVI Storm
 XXVII. 
XXVII Stormy Nights
 XXVIII. 
XXVIII Song at Dawn
 XXIX. 
XXIX Nous n'irons plus aux bois
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XXX
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XXXI
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XXXII
 XXXIII. 
XXXIII
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XXXIV
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XXXV
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XXXVI
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XXXVII
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XXXVIII The Daughter of Herodias
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XXXIX
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XL Praise and Prayer
 XLI. 
XLI John Cavalier
 XLII. 
XLII The Iron Steed
 XLIII. 
XLIII
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PIECES IN LALLAN
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UNDERWOODS
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BALLADS
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SONGS OF TRAVEL
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POEMS 1880–1894
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DEDICATIONS AND POEMS FROM BOOKS
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LIGHT VERSE
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POEMS FOR CHILDREN

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AD QUINTILIANUM

II. 90

O chief director of the growing race,
Of Rome the glory and of Rome the grace,
Me, O Quintilian, may you not forgive
Though, far from labour, I make haste to live?
Some burn to gather wealth, lay hands on rule,
Or with white statues fill the atrium full.
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The talking hearth, the rafters swart with smoke,
Live fountains and rough grass, my love invokes:
A sturdy slave: a not too learned wife:
Nights filled with slumber, and a quiet life.
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