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Robert Louis Stevenson: Collected Poems
Edited, with an introduction and notes, by Janet Adam Smith
Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)
POEMS 1869–1879
UNDERWOODS
BALLADS
SONGS OF TRAVEL
POEMS 1880–1894
DEDICATIONS AND POEMS FROM BOOKS
LIGHT VERSE
POEMS FOR CHILDREN
A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES
THE CHILD ALONE
GARDEN DAYS
ENVOYS
NOT I AND OTHER POEMS
MORAL EMBLEMS I
I.
I
II.
II
III.
III A Peak in Darien
IV.
IV
V.
V
MORAL EMBLEMS II
A MARTIAL ELEGY FOR SOME LEAD SOLDIERS
THE GRAVER AND THE PEN:
MORAL TALES
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III
To Auntie
Chief of our aunts
—not only I,
But all your dozen of nurslings cry—
What did the other children do?
And what were childhood, wanting you?
Robert Louis Stevenson: Collected Poems