Nature

The Land of Nod

by Robert Louis Stevenson 1850–1894

From A Child's Garden of Verses

Nature

All by myself I have to go,
With none to tell me what to do--
All alone beside the streams
And up the mountain-sides of dreams.

The strangest things are these for me,
Both things to eat and things to see,
And many frightening sights abroad
Till morning in the land of Nod.

Try as I like to find the way,
I never can get back by day,
Nor can remember plain and clear
The curious music that I hear.

MLA

Stevenson, Robert Louis. “The Land of Nod.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/stevenson/16/.

Chicago

Stevenson, Robert Louis. “The Land of Nod.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/stevenson/16/.

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