Poetry Codex

Victorian

Robert Louis Stevenson

1850–1894

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) was a Scottish novelist and poet, best known for Treasure Island and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, who also wrote widely loved verse.

A Child's Garden of Verses captures the imaginative world of childhood, while Songs of Travel, mostly written in his final years in Samoa, turns to restlessness, distance, and mortality.

Poems (289)

  1. Bed in Summer
  2. A Thought
  3. At the Sea-Side
  4. Young Night-Thought
  5. Whole Duty of Children
  6. Rain
  7. Pirate Story
  8. Foreign Lands
  9. Windy Nights
  10. Travel
  11. Singing
  12. Looking Forward
  13. A Good Play
  14. Where Go the Boats?
  15. Auntie's Skirts
  16. The Land of Counterpane
  17. The Land of Nod
  18. My Shadow
  19. System
  20. A Good Boy
  21. Escape at Bedtime
  22. Marching Song
  23. The Cow
  24. Happy Thought
  25. The Wind
  26. Keepsake Mill
  27. Good and Bad Children
  28. Foreign Children
  29. The Sun Travels
  30. The Lamplighter
  31. My Bed is a Boat
  32. The Moon
  33. The Swing
  34. Time to Rise
  35. Looking-Glass River
  36. Fairy Bread
  37. From a Railway Carriage
  38. Winter-Time
  39. The Hayloft
  40. North-West Passage
  41. The Unseen Playmate
  42. My Ship and I
  43. My Kingdom
  44. Picture-Books in Winter
  45. My Treasures
  46. Block City
  47. The Land of Story-Books
  48. The Little Land
  49. Night and Day
  50. Nest Eggs
  51. The Flowers
  52. Summer Sun
  53. Autumn Fires
  54. The Gardener
  55. Historical Associations
  56. To Willie and Henrietta
  57. To My Mother
  58. To Auntie
  59. To My Name-Child
  60. To Any Reader
  61. Ii—youth and Love—i
  62. Iii—youth and Love—ii
  63. V
  64. VI
  65. VII
  66. VIII
  67. IX
  68. X
  69. XI
  70. Xiii—mater Triumphans
  71. XIV
  72. XV
  73. Xvii—winter
  74. XVIII
  75. Xx—to ---
  76. XXI
  77. XXII
  78. XXIII
  79. XXIV
  80. Xxv—if This Were Faith
  81. Xxvi—my Wife
  82. Xxvii—to the Muse
  83. Xxviii—to an Island Princess
  84. Xxxi—to Mother Maryanne
  85. Xxxiv—to My Old Familiars
  86. XXXV
  87. Envoi
  88. The Song
  89. I
  90. II
  91. III
  92. IV
  93. Xxxviii—the Woodman
  94. Xxxix—tropic Rain
  95. Xl—an End of Travel
  96. XLI
  97. XLII
  98. Xliv—evensong
  99. Requiem
  100. Envoy
  101. A Song of the Road
  102. The Canoe Speaks
  103. It is the season now to go
  104. The House Beautiful
  105. A Visit from the Sea
  106. To a Gardener
  107. To Minnie
  108. To K. de M.
  109. To N. V. de G. S.
  110. To Will. H. Low
  111. To Mrs. Will. H. Low
  112. To H. F. Brown
  113. To Andrew Lang
  114. Et Tu in Arcadia Vixisti
  115. To W. E. Henley
  116. Henry James
  117. The Mirror Speaks
  118. Katharine
  119. To F. J. S.
  120. The Celestial Surgeon
  121. Our Lady of the Snows
  122. Not yet, my soul, these friendly fields desert
  123. It is not yours, O mother, to complain
  124. The Sick Child
  125. In Memoriam F. A. S.
  126. To My Father
  127. In the States
  128. A Portrait
  129. Sing clearlier, Muse, or evermore be still
  130. A Camp
  131. The Country of the Camisards
  132. Skerryvore
  133. Skerryvore: The Parallel
  134. My house, I say
  135. My body which my dungeon is
  136. Say not of me that weakly I declined
  137. The Maker to Posterity
  138. Ille Terrarum
  139. When aince Aprile has fairly come
  140. A Mile an’ a Bittock
  141. A Lowden Sabbath Morn
  142. The Spaewife
  143. The Blast—1875
  144. The Counterblast—1886
  145. The Counterblast Ironical
  146. Their Laureate to an Academy Class Dinner Club
  147. Embro Hie Kirk
  148. The Scotsman’s Return from Abroad
  149. Late in the nicht in bed I lay
  150. My Conscience!
  151. To Doctor John Brown
  152. It’s an owercome sooth for age an’ youth
  153. Prayer
  154. Lo! in thine honest eyes I read
  155. Though deep indifference should drowse
  156. My heart, when first the blackbird sings
  157. St. Martin’s Summer
  158. Dedication
  159. The old Chimæras, old receipts
  160. Prelude
  161. The Vanquished Knight
  162. To the Commissioners of Northern Lights
  163. The relic taken, what avails the shrine?
  164. About the sheltered garden ground
  165. After Reading “Antony and Cleopatra”
  166. I know not how, but as I count
  167. Spring Song
  168. The summer sun shone round me
  169. You looked so tempting in the pew
  170. Love’s Vicissitudes
  171. Duddingstone
  172. Stout marches lead to certain ends
  173. Away with funeral music
  174. To Sydney
  175. Had I the power that have the will
  176. O dull cold northern sky
  177. Apologetic Postscript of a Year Later
  178. To Marcus
  179. To Ottilie
  180. This gloomy northern day
  181. The wind is without there and howls in the trees
  182. A Valentine’s Song
  183. Hail! Childish slaves of social rules
  184. Swallows travel to and fro
  185. To Mesdames Zassetsky and Garschine
  186. To Madame Garschine
  187. Music at the Villa Marina
  188. Fear not, dear friend, but freely live your days
  189. Let love go, if go she will
  190. I do not fear to own me kin
  191. I am like one that for long days had sate
  192. Voluntary
  193. On now, although the year be done
  194. In the green and gallant Spring
  195. Death, to the dead for evermore
  196. To Charles Baxter
  197. I who all the winter through
  198. Love—what is love?
  199. Soon our friends perish
  200. As one who having wandered all night long
  201. Strange are the ways of men
  202. The wind blew shrill and smart
  203. Man sails the deep awhile
  204. The cock’s clear voice into the clearer air
  205. Now when the number of my years
  206. What man may learn, what man may do
  207. Small is the trust when love is green
  208. Know you the river near to Grez
  209. It’s forth across the roaring foam
  210. An English Breeze
  211. As in their flight the birds of song
  212. The Piper
  213. To Mrs. Macmarland
  214. To Miss Cornish
  215. Tales of Arabia
  216. Behold, as goblins dark of mien
  217. Still I love to rhyme
  218. Long time I lay in little ease
  219. Flower god, god of the spring
  220. Come, my beloved, hear from me
  221. Since years ago for evermore
  222. Envoy for “A Child’s Garden of Verses”
  223. For Richmond’s Garden Wall
  224. Hail, guest, and enter freely!
  225. Lo, now, my guest
  226. So live, so love, so use that fragile hour
  227. Ad Se Ipsum
  228. Before this little gift was come
  229. Go, little book—the ancient phrase
  230. My love was warm
  231. Dedicatory Poem for “Underwoods”
  232. Farewell
  233. The Far-Farers
  234. Come, my little children, here are songs for you
  235. Home from the daisied meadows
  236. Early in the morning I hear on your piano
  237. Fair Isle at Sea—thy lovely name
  238. Loud and low in the chimney
  239. I love to be warm by the red fireside
  240. At last she comes
  241. Mine eyes were swift to know thee
  242. Fixed is the doom
  243. Men are Heaven’s piers
  244. The angler rose, he took his rod
  245. Spring Carol
  246. To what shall I compare her
  247. When the sun comes after rain
  248. Late, O miller
  249. To friends at home
  250. I, whom Apollo sometime visited
  251. Tempest tossed and sore afflicted
  252. I now, O friend, whom noiselessly the snows
  253. Since thou hast given me this good hope, O God
  254. God gave to me a child in part
  255. Over the land is April
  256. Light as the linnet on my way I start
  257. Come, here is adieu to the city
  258. It blows a snowing gale
  259. Ne Sit Ancillæ Tibi Amor Pudor
  260. To all that love the far and blue
  261. Thou strainest through the mountain fern
  262. To Rosabelle
  263. Now bare to the beholder’s eye
  264. The Bour-Tree Den
  265. Sonnet I
  266. Sonnet II
  267. Sonnet III
  268. Sonnet IV
  269. Sonnet V
  270. Sonnet VI
  271. Sonnet VII
  272. Sonnet VIII
  273. Air of Diabelli’s
  274. Epitaphium Erotii
  275. De M. Antonio
  276. In Charidemum
  277. De Ligurra
  278. In Lupum
  279. Ad Quintilianum
  280. De Hortis Julii Martialis
  281. De Cœnatione Micæ
  282. De Erotio Puella
  283. Ad Piscatorem
  284. I dreamed of forest alleys fair
  285. Ticonderoga
  286. Heather Ale
  287. Alcaics: To H. F. B
  288. Christmas at Sea
  289. The Vagabond

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