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Poetry

Poetry

by Robert Louis Stevenson

A collection of poetry by Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson.

Languages
English·Español
License
Public Domain
Originally published
1894
Latest release
Oct 8, 2026
Pages
454
Format
6 × 9 in (152 × 229 mm)
Book type
Novel
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Public page

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Table of Contents

  1. Not I
  2. Here, Perfect to a Wish
  3. As Seamen on the Seas
  4. The Pamphlet Here Presented
  5. See How the Children in the Print
  6. Reader, Your Soul Upraise to See
  7. A Peak in Darien
  8. See in the Print, How Moved by Whim
  9. Mark, printed on the opposing page
  10. With Storms A-Weather, Rocks A-Lee
  11. The Careful Angler Chose His Nook
  12. The Abbot for a Walk Went Out
  13. The Frozen Peaks He Once Explored
  14. Industrious Pirate! See Him Sweep
  15. A Martial Elegy for Some Lead Soldiers
  16. Proem
  17. The Precarious Mill
  18. The Disputatious Pines
  19. The Tramps
  20. The Foolhardy Geographer
  21. The Angler & The Clown
  22. Robin and Ben; Or, The Pirate and the Apothecary
  23. The Builder’s Doom
  24. To Alison Cunningham
  25. Bed in Summer
  26. A Thought
  27. At the Sea-Side
  28. Young Night Thought
  29. Whole Duty of Children
  30. Rain
  31. Pirate Story
  32. Foreign Lands
  33. Windy Nights
  34. Travel
  35. Singing
  36. Looking Forward
  37. A Good Play
  38. Where Go the Boats?
  39. Auntie’s Skirts
  40. The Land of Counterpane
  41. The Land of Nod
  42. My Shadow
  43. System
  44. A Good Boy
  45. Escape at Bedtime
  46. Marching Song
  47. The Cow
  48. Happy Thought
  49. The Wind
  50. Keepsake Mill
  51. Good and Bad Children
  52. Foreign Children
  53. The Sun’s Travels
  54. The Lamplighter
  55. My Bed Is a Boat
  56. The Moon
  57. The Swing
  58. Time to Rise
  59. Looking-Glass River
  60. Fairy Bread
  61. From a Railway Carriage
  62. Winter-Time
  63. The Hayloft
  64. Farewell to the Farm
  65. I
  66. II
  67. III
  68. The Unseen Playmate
  69. My Ship and I
  70. My Kingdom
  71. Picture-Books in Winter
  72. My Treasures
  73. Block City
  74. The Land of Story-Books
  75. Armies in the Fire
  76. The Little Land
  77. Night and Day
  78. Nest Eggs
  79. The Flowers
  80. Summer Sun
  81. The Dumb Soldier
  82. Autumn Fires
  83. The Gardener
  84. Historical Associations
  85. To Willie and Henrietta
  86. To My Mother
  87. To Auntie
  88. To Minnie
  89. To My Name-Child
  90. To Any Reader
  91. Envoy
  92. A Song of the Road
  93. The Canoe Speaks
  94. It Is the Season Now to Go
  95. The House Beautiful
  96. A Visit from the Sea
  97. To a Gardener
  98. To Minnie
  99. To K. de M.
  100. To N. V. de G. S.
  101. To Will. H. Low
  102. To Mrs. Will. H. Low
  103. To H. F. Brown
  104. To Andrew Lang
  105. Et Tu in Arcadia Vixisti
  106. To W. E. Henley
  107. Henry James
  108. The Mirror Speaks
  109. Katharine
  110. To F. J. S.
  111. Requiem
  112. The Celestial Surgeon
  113. Our Lady of the Snows
  114. Not Yet, My Soul, These Friendly Fields Desert
  115. It Is Not Yours, O Mother, to Complain
  116. The Sick Child
  117. In Memoriam F. A. S.
  118. To My Father
  119. In the States
  120. A Portrait
  121. Sing Clearlier, Muse, or Evermore Be Still
  122. A Camp
  123. The Country of the Camisards
  124. Skerryvore
  125. Skerryvore
  126. “My House,” I Say. But Hark to the Sunny Doves
  127. My Body Which My Dungeon Is
  128. Say Not of Me That Weakly I Declined
  129. The Song Of Rahero Dedication
  130. I
  131. II
  132. III
  133. I
  134. II
  135. III
  136. IV
  137. Ticonderoga Preface
  138. I
  139. II
  140. III
  141. Heather Ale
  142. Christmas at Sea
  143. The Vagabond
  144. Youth and Love⁠— I
  145. Youth and Love⁠— II
  146. In Dreams, Unhappy, I Behold You Stand
  147. She Rested by the Broken Brook
  148. The Infinite Shining Heavens
  149. Plain as the Glistering Planets Shine
  150. To You, Let Snow and Roses
  151. Let Beauty Awake in the Morn from Beautiful Dreams
  152. I Know Not How It Is with You
  153. I Will Make You Brooches and Toys for Your Delight
  154. We Have Loved of Yore
  155. Mater Triumphans
  156. Bright Is the Ring of Words
  157. In the Highlands, in the Country Places
  158. Home No More Home to Me, Whither Must I Wander?
  159. Winter
  160. The Stormy Evening Closes Now in Vain
  161. To Dr. Hake
  162. To ⸻
  163. The Morning Drum-Call on My Eager Ear
  164. I Have Trod the Upward and the Downward Slope
  165. He Hears with Gladdened Heart the Thunder
  166. Farewell, Fair Day and Fading Light!
  167. If This Were Faith
  168. My Wife
  169. To the Muse
  170. To an Island Princess
  171. To Kalakaua
  172. To Princess Kaiulani
  173. To Mother Maryanne
  174. In Memoriam E. H.
  175. To My Wife
  176. To My Old Familiars
  177. The Tropics Vanish, and Meseems That I
  178. To S. C.
  179. The House of Tembinoka
  180. The Woodman
  181. Tropic Rain
  182. An End of Travel
  183. We Uncommiserate Pass Into the Night
  184. Sing Me a Song of a Lad That Is Gone
  185. To S. R. Crockett
  186. Evensong
  187. The Light-Keeper
  188. A Familiar Epistle
  189. I
  190. II
  191. III
  192. IV
  193. The Susquehannah and the Delaware
  194. Epistle to Albert Dew-Smith
  195. Alcaics to Horatio F. Brown
  196. A Lytle Jape of Tusherie
  197. To Virgil and Dora Williams
  198. Burlesque Sonnet
  199. The Fine Pacific Islands
  200. The Lesson of the Master
  201. The Consecration of Braille
  202. Song
  203. Prayer
  204. Lo! In Thine Honest Eyes I Read
  205. Though Deep Indifference Should Drowse
  206. My Heart, When First the Blackbird Sings
  207. I Dreamed of Forest Alleys Fair
  208. St. Martin’s Summer
  209. Dedication
  210. The Old Chimaeras, Old Receipts
  211. Prelude
  212. The Vanquished Knight
  213. To the Commissioners of Northern Lights
  214. The Relic Taken, What Avails the Shrine?
  215. About the Sheltered Garden Ground
  216. After Reading “Antony and Cleopatra”
  217. I Know Not How, but as I Count
  218. Spring Song
  219. The Summer Sun Shone Round Me
  220. You Looked So Tempting in the Pew
  221. Love’s Vicissitudes
  222. Duddingstone
  223. Stout Marches Lead to Certain Ends
  224. Away with Funeral Music
  225. To Sydney
  226. Had I the Power That Have the Will
  227. O Dull Cold Northern Sky
  228. Apologetic Postscript of a Year Later
  229. To Marcus
  230. To Ottilie
  231. This Gloomy Northern Day
  232. The Wind Is Without There and Howls in the Trees
  233. A Valentine’s Song
  234. Hail! Childish Slaves of Social Rules
  235. Swallows Travel to and Fro
  236. To Mesdames Zassetsky and Garschine
  237. To Madame Garschine
  238. Music at the Villa Marina
  239. Fear Not, Dear Friend, but Freely Live Your Days
  240. Let Love Go, if Go She Will
  241. I Do Not Fear to Own Me Kin
  242. I Am Like One That for Long Days Had Sate
  243. Voluntary
  244. On Now, Although the Year Be Done
  245. In the Green and Gallant Spring
  246. Death, to the Dead for Evermore
  247. I Who All the Winter Through
  248. Love, What Is Love?
  249. Soon Our Friends Perish
  250. As One Who Having Wandered All Night Long
  251. Strange Are the Ways of Men
  252. The Wind Blew Shrill and Smart
  253. Man Sails the Deep Awhile
  254. The Cock’s Clear Voice Into the Clearer Air
  255. Now When the Number of My Years
  256. What Man May Learn, What Man May Do
  257. Small Is the Trust When Love Is Green
  258. Know You the River Near to Grez
  259. It’s Forth Across the Roaring Foam
  260. An English Breeze
  261. As in Their Flight the Birds of Song
  262. The Piper
  263. To Mrs. Macmarland
  264. To Miss Cornish
  265. Tales of Arabia
  266. Behold, as Goblins Dark of Mien
  267. Still I Love to Rhyme
  268. Long Time I Lay in Little Ease
  269. Flower God, God of the Spring
  270. Come, My Beloved, Hear from Me
  271. Since Years Ago for Evermore
  272. Envoy for “A Child’s Garden of Verses”
  273. For Richmond’s Garden Wall
  274. Hail, Guest, and Enter Freely!
  275. Lo, Now, My Guest
  276. So Live, So Love, So Use That Fragile Hour
  277. Ad Se Ipsum
  278. Before This Little Gift Was Come
  279. Go, Little Book⁠—The Ancient Phrase
  280. My Love Was Warm
  281. Dedicatory Poem for “Underwoods”
  282. Farewell
  283. The Far-Farers
  284. Come, My Little Children, Here Are Songs for You
  285. Home from the Daisied Meadows
  286. Early in the Morning I Hear on Your Piano
  287. Fair Isle at Sea
  288. Loud and Low in the Chimney
  289. I Love to Be Warm by the Red Fireside
  290. At Last She Comes
  291. Mine Eyes Were Swift to Know Thee
  292. Fixed Is the Doom
  293. Men Are Heaven’s Piers
  294. The Angler Rose, He Took His Rod
  295. Spring Carol
  296. To What Shall I Compare Her?
  297. When the Sun Comes After Rain
  298. Late, O Miller
  299. To Friends at Home
  300. I, Whom Apollo Sometime Visited
  301. Tempest Tossed and Sore Afflicted
  302. Variant Form of the Preceding Poem
  303. I Now, O Friend, Whom Noiselessly the Snows
  304. Since Thou Hast Given Me This Good Hope, O God
  305. God Gave to Me a Child in Part
  306. Over the Land Is April
  307. Light as the Linnet on My Way I Start
  308. Come, Here Is Adieu to the City
  309. It Blows a Snowing Gale
  310. Ne Sit Ancillæ Tibi Amor Pudor
  311. To All That Love the Far and Blue
  312. Thou Strainest Through the Mountain Fern
  313. To Rosabelle
  314. Now Bare to the Beholder’s Eye
  315. Sonnets
  316. Air of Diabelli’s
  317. Epitaphium Erotii
  318. De M. Antonio
  319. Ad Magistrum Ludi
  320. Ad Nepotem
  321. In Charidemum
  322. De Ligurra
  323. In Lupum
  324. Ad Quintilianum
  325. De Hortis Julii Martialis
  326. Ad Martialem
  327. In Maximum
  328. Ad Olum
  329. De Cœnatione Micæ
  330. De Erotio Puella
  331. Ad Piscatorem
  332. The Mill-House
  333. The Well-Head
  334. A Summer Night
  335. Take Not My Hand as Mine Alone
  336. All Influences Were in Vain
  337. Death
  338. The Moon Is Sinking⁠—The Tempestuous Weather
  339. The Whole Day Thro’, in Contempt and Pity
  340. The Old World Moans and Topes
  341. I Am Like One That Has Sat Alone
  342. I Sit Up Here at Midnight
  343. Link Your Arm in Mine, My Lad
  344. I Have a Friend; I Have a Story
  345. Hopes
  346. To a Youth
  347. Here He Comes, Big with Statistics
  348. In Autumn When the Woods Are Red
  349. The Look of Death Is Both Severe and Mild
  350. Her Name Is as a Word of Old Romance
  351. Light as My Heart Was Long Ago
  352. Gather Ye Roses While Ye May
  353. Since I Am Sworn to Live My Life
  354. Poem for a Class Re-Union
  355. I Saw Red Evening Through the Rain
  356. Last Night We Had a Thunderstorm in Style
  357. O Lady Fair and Sweet
  358. If I Had Wings, My Lady, Like a Dove
  359. All Night Through, Raves or Broods
  360. The Rain Is Over and Done
  361. There Where the Land of Love
  362. Love Is the Very Heart of Spring
  363. At Morning on the Garden Seat
  364. If I Could Arise and Travel Away
  365. Good Old Ale, Mild or Pale
  366. Nay, but I Fancy Somehow, Year by Year
  367. My Wife and I, in One Romantic Cot
  368. Yes, I Remember, and Still Remember Wailing
  369. Of Schooners, Islands and Maroons
  370. Here Lies Erotion
  371. To Priapus
  372. Far Over Seas an Island Is
  373. On the Gorgeous Hills of Morning
  374. Rivers and Winds Among the Twisted Hills
  375. I Am a Hunchback, Yellow Faced
  376. I Look Across the Ocean