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Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson

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by Robert Louis Stevenson


  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

  NIGHT AND DAY

  NEST EGGS

  THE FLOWERS

  SUMMER SUN

  THE DUMB SOLDIER

  AUTUMN FIRES

  THE GARDENER

  HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS

  TO WILLIE AND HENRIETTA

  TO MY MOTHER

  TO AUNTIE

  TO MINNIE

  TO MY NAME-CHILD

  TO ANY READER

  ENVOY

  A SONG OF THE ROAD

  THE CANOE SPEAKS

  THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL

  A VISIT FROM THE SEA

  TO A GARDENER

  TO MINNIE

  TO K. DE M.

  TO N. V. DE G. S.

  TO WILL. H. LOW

  TO MRS. WILL. H. LOW

  TO H. F. BROWN

  TO ANDREW LANG

  ET TU IN ARCADIA VIXISTI

  TO W. E. HENLEY

  HENRY JAMES

  THE MIRROR SPEAKS

  KATHARINE

  TO F. J. S.

  REQUIEM

  THE CELESTIAL SURGEON

  OUR LADY OF THE SNOWS

  THE SICK CHILD

  IN MEMORIAM F. A. S.

  TO MY FATHER

  IN THE STATES

  A PORTRAIT

  A CAMP

  THE COUNTRY OF THE CAMISARDS

  SKERRYVORE

  SKERRYVORE: The Parallel

  THE MAKER TO POSTERITY

  ILLE TERRARUM

  A MILE AN’ A BITTOCK

  A LOWDEN SABBATH MORN

  THE SPAEWIFE

  THE BLAST — 1875

  THE COUNTERBLAST — 1886

  THE COUNTERBLAST IRONICAL

  THEIR LAUREATE TO AN ACADEMY CLASS DINNER CLUB

  EMBRO HIE KIRK

  THE SCOTSMAN’S RETURN FROM ABROAD

  MY CONSCIENCE!

  TO DOCTOR JOHN BROWN

  XVI. “IT’S AN OWERCOME SOOTH FOR AGE AN’ YOUTH”

  THE SONG OF RAHÉRO. A LEGEND OF TAHITI

  THE FEAST OF FAMINE. MARQUESAN MANNERS

  TICONDEROGA. A LEGEND OF THE WEST HIGHLANDS

  HEATHER ALE. A GALLOWAY LEGEND

  THE VAGABOND. (To an air of Schubert)

  YOUTH AND LOVE — I

  YOUTH AND LOVE — II

  IN DREAMS, UNHAPPY, I BEHOLD YOU STAND

  SHE RESTED BY THE BROKEN BROOK

  THE INFINITE SHINING HEAVENS

  PLAIN AS THE GLISTERING PLANETS SHINE

  TO YOU, LET SNOW AND ROSES

  LET BEAUTY AWAKE IN THE MORN FROM BEAUTIFUL DREAMS

  I KNOW NOT HOW IT IS WITH YOU

  I WILL MAKE YOU BROOCHES AND TOYS FOR YOUR DELIGHT

  WE HAVE LOVED OF YORE. (To an air of Diabelli)

  MATER TRIUMPHANS

  BRIGHT IS THE RING OF WORDS

  IN THE HIGHLANDS, IN THE COUNTRY PLACES

  TO THE TUNE OF WANDERING WILLIE

  WINTER

  THE STORMY EVENING CLOSES NOW IN VAIN

  TO DR. HAKE. (On receiving a Copy of Verses)

  TO —

  THE MORNING DRUM-CALL ON MY EAGER EAR

  I HAVE TROD THE UPWARD AND THE DOWNWARD SLOPE

  HE HEARS WITH GLADDENED HEART THE THUNDER

  FAREWELL, FAIR DAY AND FADING LIGHT!

  IF THIS WERE FAITH

  MY WIFE

  TO THE MUSE

  TO AN ISLAND PRINCESS

  TO KALAKAUA. (With a present of a Pearl)

  TO PRINCESS KAIULANI

  TO MOTHER MARYANNE

  IN MEMORIAM E. H.

  TO MY WIFE. (A Fragment)

  TO MY OLD FAMILIARS

  THE TROPICS VANISH, AND MESEEMS THAT I

  TO S. C.

  THE HOUSE OF TEMBINOKA

  ENVOI

  THE SONG

  THE WOODMAN

  TROPIC RAIN

  AN END OF TRAVEL

  WE UNCOMMISERATE PASS INTO THE NIGHT

  SING ME A SONG OF A LAD THAT IS GONE

  TO S. R. CROCKETT. (On receiving a Dedication)

  EVENSONG

  A FAMILIAR EPISTLE

  RONDELS

  OF HIS PITIABLE TRANSFORMATION

  EPISTLE TO CHARLES BAXTER

  THE SUSQUEHANNAH AND THE DELAWARE

  EPISTLE TO ALBERT DEW-SMITH

  ALCAICS TO HORATIO F. BROWN

  A LYTLE JAPE OF TUSHERIE

  TO VIRGIL AND DORA WILLIAMS

  BURLESQUE SONNET

  THE FINE PACIFIC ISLANDS

  AULD REEKIE

  THE LESSON OF THE MASTER

  THE CONSECRATION OF BRAILLE

  SONG

  THE LIGHT-KEEPER

  PRAYER

  LO! IN THINE HONEST EYES I READ

  THOUGH DEEP INDIFFERENCE SHOULD DROWSE

  MY HEART, WHEN FIRST THE BLACK-BIRD SINGS

  I DREAMED OF FOREST ALLEYS FAIR

  IV.

  ST. MARTIN’S SUMMER

  DEDICATION

  THE OLD CHIMÆRAS, OLD RECEIPTS

  PRELUDE

  THE VANQUISHED KNIGHT

  TO THE COMMISSIONERS OF NORTHERN LIGHTS

  THE RELIC TAKEN, WHAT AVAILS THE SHRINE?

  ABOUT THE SHELTERED GARDEN GROUND

  AFTER READING “ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA”

  I KNOW NOT HOW, BUT AS I COUNT

  SPRING SONG

  THE SUMMER SUN SHONE ROUND ME

  YOU LOOKED SO TEMPTING IN THE PEW

  LOVE’S VICISSITUDES

  DUDDINGSTONE

  STOUT MARCHES LEAD TO CERTAIN ENDS

  AWAY WITH FUNERAL MUSIC

  TO SYDNEY

  HAD I THE POWER THAT HAVE THE WILL

  O DULL COLD NORTHERN SKY

  APOLOGETIC POSTSCRIPT OF A YEAR LATER

  TO MARCUS

  TO OTTILIE

  THIS GLOOMY NORTHERN DAY

  THE WIND IS WITHOUT THERE AND HOWLS IN THE TREES

  A VALENTINE’S SONG

  HAIL! CHILDISH SLAVES OF SOCIAL RULES

  SWALLOWS TRAVEL TO AND FRO

  TO MESDAMES ZASSETSKY AND GARSCHINE

  TO MADAME GARSCHINE

  MUSIC AT THE VILLA MARINA

  FEAR NOT, DEAR FRIEND, BUT FREELY LIVE YOUR DAYS

  LET LOVE GO, IF GO SHE WILL

  I DO NOT FEAR TO OWN ME KIN

  I AM LIKE ONE THAT FOR LONG DAYS HAD SATE

  VOLUNTARY

  ON NOW, ALTHOUGH THE YEAR BE DONE

  IN THE GREEN AND GALLANT SPRING

  DEATH, TO THE DEAD FOR EVERMORE

  TO CHARLES BAXTER

  I WHO ALL THE WINTER THROUGH

  LOVE, WHAT IS LOVE?

  SOON OUR FRIENDS PERISH

  AS ONE WHO HAVING WANDERED ALL NIGHT LONG

  STRANGE ARE THE WAYS OF MEN

  THE WIND BLEW SHRILL AND SMART

  MAN SAILS THE DEEP AWHILE

  THE COCK’S CLEAR VOICE INTO THE CLEARER AIR

  NOW WHEN THE NUMBER OF MY YEARS

  WHAT MAN MAY LEARN, WHAT MAN MAY DO

  SMALL IS THE TRUST WHEN LOVE IS GREEN

  KNOW YOU THE RIVER NEAR TO GREZ

  IT’S FORTH ACROSS THE ROARING FOAM

  AN ENGLISH BREEZE

  AS IN THEIR FLIGHT THE BIRDS OF SONG

  THE PIPER

  TO MRS. MACMARLAND

  TO MISS CORNISH

  TALES OF ARABIA

  BEHOLD, AS GOBLINS DARK OF MIEN

  STILL I LOVE TO RHYME

  LONG TIME I LAY IN LITTLE EASE

  FLOWER GOD, GOD OF THE SPRING

  COME, MY BELOVED, HEAR FROM ME

  SINCE YEARS AGO FOR EVERMORE

  ENVOY FOR “A CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES”

  FOR RICHMOND’S GARDEN WALL

  HAIL, GUEST, AND ENTER FREELY!

  LO, NOW, MY GUEST />
  SO LIVE, SO LOVE, SO USE THAT FRAGILE HOUR

  AD SE IPSUM

  BEFORE THIS LITTLE GIFT WAS COME

  GO, LITTLE BOOK — THE ANCIENT PHRASE

  MY LOVE WAS WARM

  DEDICATORY POEM FOR “UNDERWOODS”

  FAREWELL

  THE FAR-FARERS

  COME, MY LITTLE CHILDREN, HERE ARE SONGS FOR YOU

  HOME FROM THE DAISIED MEADOWS

  EARLY IN THE MORNING I HEAR ON YOUR PIANO

  FAIR ISLE AT SEA

  LOUD AND LOW IN THE CHIMNEY

  I LOVE TO BE WARM BY THE RED FIRESIDE

  AT LAST SHE COMES

  MINE EYES WERE SWIFT TO KNOW THEE

  FIXED IS THE DOOM

  MEN ARE HEAVEN’S PIERS

  THE ANGLER ROSE, HE TOOK HIS ROD

  SPRING CAROL

  TO WHAT SHALL I COMPARE HER?

  WHEN THE SUN COMES AFTER RAIN

  LATE, O MILLER

  TO FRIENDS AT HOME

  I, WHOM APOLLO SOMETIME VISITED

  TEMPEST TOSSED AND SORE AFFLICTED

  VARIANT FORM OF THE PRECEDING POEM

  I NOW, O FRIEND, WHOM NOISELESSLY THE SNOWS

  SINCE THOU HAST GIVEN ME THIS GOOD HOPE, O GOD

  GOD GAVE TO ME A CHILD IN PART

  OVER THE LAND IS APRIL

  LIGHT AS THE LINNET ON MY WAY I START

  COME, HERE IS ADIEU TO THE CITY

  IT BLOWS A SNOWING GALE

  NE SIT ANCILLÆ TIBI AMOR PUDOR

  TO ALL THAT LOVE THE FAR AND BLUE

  THOU STRAINEST THROUGH THE MOUNTAIN FERN

  TO ROSABELLE

  NOW BARE TO THE BEHOLDER’S EYE

  THE BOUR-TREE DEN

  SONNETS

  AIR OF DIABELLI’S

  EPITAPHIUM EROTII

  DE M. ANTONIO

  AD MAGISTRUM LUDI

  AD NEPOTEM

  IN CHARIDEMUM

  DE LIGURRA

  IN LUPUM

  AD QUINTILIANUM

  DE HORTIS JULII MARTIALIS

  AD MARTIALEM

  IN MAXIMUM

  AD OLUM

  DE CŒNATIONE MICÆ

  DE EROTIO PUELLA

  AD PISCATOREM

  LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

  A-D E-H I-L M-O P-S T-V W-Z

  A CAMP

  A FAMILIAR EPISTLE

  A GOOD BOY

  A GOOD PLAY

  A LOWDEN SABBATH MORN

  A LYTLE JAPE OF TUSHERIE

  A MILE AN’ A BITTOCK

  A PORTRAIT

  A SONG OF THE ROAD

  A THOUGHT

  A VALENTINE’S SONG

  A VISIT FROM THE SEA

  ABOUT THE SHELTERED GARDEN GROUND

  AD MAGISTRUM LUDI

  AD MARTIALEM

  AD NEPOTEM

  AD OLUM

  AD PISCATOREM

  AD QUINTILIANUM

  AD SE IPSUM

  AFTER READING “ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA”

  AIR OF DIABELLI’S

  ALCAICS TO HORATIO F. BROWN

  AN END OF TRAVEL

  AN ENGLISH BREEZE

  APOLOGETIC POSTSCRIPT OF A YEAR LATER

  ARMIES IN THE FIRE

  AS IN THEIR FLIGHT THE BIRDS OF SONG

  AS ONE WHO HAVING WANDERED ALL NIGHT LONG

  AT LAST SHE COMES

  AT THE SEASIDE

  AULD REEKIE

  AUNTIE’S SKIRTS

  AUTUMN FIRES

  AWAY WITH FUNERAL MUSIC

  BED IN SUMMER

  BEFORE THIS LITTLE GIFT WAS COME

  BEHOLD, AS GOBLINS DARK OF MIEN

  BLOCK CITY

  BRIGHT IS THE RING OF WORDS

  BURLESQUE SONNET

  COME, HERE IS ADIEU TO THE CITY

  COME, MY BELOVED, HEAR FROM ME

  COME, MY LITTLE CHILDREN, HERE ARE SONGS FOR YOU

  DE CŒNATIONE MICÆ

  DE EROTIO PUELLA

  DE HORTIS JULII MARTIALIS

  DE LIGURRA

  DE M. ANTONIO

  DEATH, TO THE DEAD FOR EVERMORE

  DEDICATION

  DEDICATORY POEM FOR “UNDERWOODS”

  DUDDINGSTONE

  EARLY IN THE MORNING I HEAR ON YOUR PIANO

  EMBRO HIE KIRK

  ENVOI

  ENVOY

  ENVOY FOR “A CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES”

  EPISTLE TO ALBERT DEW-SMITH

  EPISTLE TO CHARLES BAXTER

  EPITAPHIUM EROTII

  ESCAPE AT BEDTIME

  ET TU IN ARCADIA VIXISTI

  EVENSONG

  FAIR ISLE AT SEA

  FAIRY BREAD

  FAREWELL

  FAREWELL TO THE FARM

  FAREWELL, FAIR DAY AND FADING LIGHT!

  FEAR NOT, DEAR FRIEND, BUT FREELY LIVE YOUR DAYS

  FIXED IS THE DOOM

  FLOWER GOD, GOD OF THE SPRING

  FOR RICHMOND’S GARDEN WALL

  FOREIGN CHILDREN

  FOREIGN LANDS

  FROM A RAILWAY CARRIAGE

  GO, LITTLE BOOK — THE ANCIENT PHRASE

  GOD GAVE TO ME A CHILD IN PART

  GOOD AND BAD CHILDREN

  GOOD NIGHT

  HAD I THE POWER THAT HAVE THE WILL

  HAIL! CHILDISH SLAVES OF SOCIAL RULES

  HAIL, GUEST, AND ENTER FREELY!

  HAPPY THOUGHT

  HE HEARS WITH GLADDENED HEART THE THUNDER

  HEATHER ALE. A GALLOWAY LEGEND

  HENRY JAMES

  HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS

  HOME FROM THE DAISIED MEADOWS

  I AM LIKE ONE THAT FOR LONG DAYS HAD SATE

  I DO NOT FEAR TO OWN ME KIN

  I DREAMED OF FOREST ALLEYS FAIR

  I HAVE TROD THE UPWARD AND THE DOWNWARD SLOPE

  I KNOW NOT HOW IT IS WITH YOU

  I KNOW NOT HOW, BUT AS I COUNT

  I LOVE TO BE WARM BY THE RED FIRESIDE

  I NOW, O FRIEND, WHOM NOISELESSLY THE SNOWS

  I WHO ALL THE WINTER THROUGH

  I WILL MAKE YOU BROOCHES AND TOYS FOR YOUR DELIGHT

  I, WHOM APOLLO SOMETIME VISITED

  IF THIS WERE FAITH

  ILLE TERRARUM

  IN CHARIDEMUM

  IN DREAMS, UNHAPPY, I BEHOLD YOU STAND

  IN LUPUM

  IN MAXIMUM

  IN MEMORIAM E. H.

  IN MEMORIAM F. A. S.

  IN PORT

  IN THE GREEN AND GALLANT SPRING

  IN THE HIGHLANDS, IN THE COUNTRY PLACES

  IN THE STATES

  IT BLOWS A SNOWING GALE

  IT’S FORTH ACROSS THE ROARING FOAM

  IV.

  KATHARINE

  KEEPSAKE MILL

  KNOW YOU THE RIVER NEAR TO GREZ

  LATE, O MILLER

  LET BEAUTY AWAKE IN THE MORN FROM BEAUTIFUL DREAMS

  LET LOVE GO, IF GO SHE WILL

  LIGHT AS THE LINNET ON MY WAY I START

  LO! IN THINE HONEST EYES I READ

  LO, NOW, MY GUEST

  LONG TIME I LAY IN LITTLE EASE

  LOOKING FORWARD

  LOOKING-GLASS RIVER

  LOUD AND LOW IN THE CHIMNEY

  LOVE, WHAT IS LOVE?

  LOVE’S VICISSITUDES

  MAN SAILS THE DEEP AWHILE

  MARCHING SONG

  MATER TRIUMPHANS

  MEN ARE HEAVEN’S PIERS

  MINE EYES WERE SWIFT TO KNOW THEE

  MUSIC AT THE VILLA MARINA

  MY BED IS A BOAT

  MY CONSCIENCE!

  MY HEART, WHEN FIRST THE BLACK-BIRD SINGS

  MY KINGDOM

  MY LOVE WAS WARM

  MY SHADOW

  MY SHIP AND I

  MY TREASURES

  MY WIFE

  NE SIT ANCILLÆ TIBI AMOR PUDOR

  NEST EGGS

  NIGHT AND DAY

  NOW BARE TO THE BEHOLDER’S EYE

  NOW WHEN THE NUMBER OF MY YEARS

  O DULL COLD NORTHERN SKY

  OF HIS PITIABLE TRAN
SFORMATION

  ON NOW, ALTHOUGH THE YEAR BE DONE

  OUR LADY OF THE SNOWS

  OVER THE LAND IS APRIL

  PICTURE-BOOKS IN WINTER

  PIRATE STORY

  PLAIN AS THE GLISTERING PLANETS SHINE

  PRAYER

  PRELUDE

  RAIN

  REQUIEM

  RONDELS

  SHADOW MARCH

  SHE RESTED BY THE BROKEN BROOK

  SINCE THOU HAST GIVEN ME THIS GOOD HOPE, O GOD

  SINCE YEARS AGO FOR EVERMORE

  SING ME A SONG OF A LAD THAT IS GONE

  SINGING

  SKERRYVORE

  SKERRYVORE: The Parallel

  SMALL IS THE TRUST WHEN LOVE IS GREEN

  SO LIVE, SO LOVE, SO USE THAT FRAGILE HOUR

  SONG

  SONNETS

  SOON OUR FRIENDS PERISH

  SPRING CAROL

  SPRING SONG

  ST. MARTIN’S SUMMER

  STILL I LOVE TO RHYME

  STOUT MARCHES LEAD TO CERTAIN ENDS

  STRANGE ARE THE WAYS OF MEN

  SUMMER SUN

  SWALLOWS TRAVEL TO AND FRO

  SYSTEM

  TALES OF ARABIA

  TEMPEST TOSSED AND SORE AFFLICTED

  THE ANGLER ROSE, HE TOOK HIS ROD

  THE BLAST — 1875

  THE BOUR-TREE DEN

  THE CANOE SPEAKS

  THE CELESTIAL SURGEON

  THE COCK’S CLEAR VOICE INTO THE CLEARER AIR

  THE CONSECRATION OF BRAILLE

  THE COUNTERBLAST — 1886

  THE COUNTERBLAST IRONICAL

  THE COUNTRY OF THE CAMISARDS

  THE COW

  THE DUMB SOLDIER

  THE FAR-FARERS

  THE FEAST OF FAMINE. MARQUESAN MANNERS

  THE FINE PACIFIC ISLANDS

  THE FLOWERS

  THE GARDENER

  THE HAYLOFT

  THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL

  THE HOUSE OF TEMBINOKA

  THE INFINITE SHINING HEAVENS

  THE LAMPLIGHTER

  THE LAND OF COUNTERPANE

  THE LAND OF NOD

  THE LAND OF STORY-BOOKS

  THE LESSON OF THE MASTER

  THE LIGHT-KEEPER

  THE LITTLE LAND

  THE MAKER TO POSTERITY

  THE MIRROR SPEAKS

  THE MOON

  THE MORNING DRUM-CALL ON MY EAGER EAR

  THE OLD CHIMÆRAS, OLD RECEIPTS

  THE PIPER

  THE RELIC TAKEN, WHAT AVAILS THE SHRINE?

  THE SCOTSMAN’S RETURN FROM ABROAD

  THE SICK CHILD

  THE SONG

  THE SONG OF RAHÉRO. A LEGEND OF TAHITI

  THE SPAEWIFE

  THE STORMY EVENING CLOSES NOW IN VAIN

  THE SUMMER SUN SHONE ROUND ME

  THE SUN’S TRAVELS

  THE SUSQUEHANNAH AND THE DELAWARE

  THE SWING

  THE TROPICS VANISH, AND MESEEMS THAT I

  THE UNSEEN PLAYMATE

  THE VAGABOND. (To an air of Schubert)

  THE VANQUISHED KNIGHT

  THE WIND

  THE WIND BLEW SHRILL AND SMART

  THE WIND IS WITHOUT THERE AND HOWLS IN THE TREES

  THE WOODMAN

  THEIR LAUREATE TO AN ACADEMY CLASS DINNER CLUB

  THIS GLOOMY NORTHERN DAY

  THOU STRAINEST THROUGH THE MOUNTAIN FERN

  THOUGH DEEP INDIFFERENCE SHOULD DROWSE

  TICONDEROGA. A LEGEND OF THE WEST HIGHLANDS

  TIME TO RISE

 

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