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A Child's Garden of Verses
	First edition cover
Author	Robert Louis Stevenson
Language	English
Genre	Poetry collection
Publisher	Longmans, Green, & Co
Publication date	1885
Pages	101

A Child's Garden of Verses is an 1885 volume of 64 poems for children by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. It has been reprinted many times, often in illustrated versions, and is considered to be one of the most influential children's works of the 19th century.^[2] The poems, which have been widely imitated, are written from the point of view of a child. Stevenson dedicated the collection to his childhood nurse, Alison Cunningham.^[2]

Contents edit

One of the poems, "Happy Thought", as used in A Little Book for A Little Cook, 1905

A Child's Garden of Verses edit

"Bed in Summer"
"A Thought"
"At the Sea-side"
"Young Night Thought"
"Whole Duty of Children"
"Rain"
"Pirate Story"
"Foreign Lands"
"Windy Nights"
"Travelling"
"Singing"
"Looking Forward"
"A Good Play"
"Where Go the Boats?"
"Auntie's Skirts"
"The Land of Counterpane"
"The Land of Nod"
"My Shadow"
"System"
"A Good Boy"
"Escape at Bedtime"
"Marching Song"
"The Cow"
"Happy Thought"
"The Wind"
"Keepsake Mill"
"Good and Bad Children"
"Foreign Children"
"The Sun's Travels"
"The Lamplighter"
"My Bed is a Boat"
"The Moon"
"The Swing"
"Time to Rise"
"Looking-glass River"
"Fairy Bread"
"From a Railway Carriage"
"Winter-time"
"The Hayloft"
"Farewell to the Farm"
"Northwest Passage: Good Night, Shadow March, In Port"

The Child Alone edit

"The Unseen Playmate"
"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"

Garden Days edit

"Night and Day"
"Nest Eggs"
"The Flowers"
"Summer Sun"
"The Dumb Soldier"
"Autumn Fires"
"The Gardener"
"Historical Associations"

Envoys edit

"To Willie and Henrietta"
"To My Mother"
"To Auntie"
"To Minnie"
"To My Name-child"
"To Any Reader"

Publication edit

Inspired by a children's book of 1880, the collection was originally to be called Penny Whistles^[2] but was ultimately published by Longmans, Green, & Co in 1885 as A Child's Garden of Verses.^[1]

Adaptations edit

In 1922, the classical scholar Terrot Reaveley Glover published a translation of the poems into Latin under the title Carmina non prius audita de ludis et hortis virginibus puerisque.^[3]
Disneyland Records released an LP record of the poems set to music. This was the first title for the newly created Disney record label. Gwyn Conger wrote the music, which was performed by Francis Archer and Beverly Gile.^[4]
The Italian composer Carlo Deri composed, in 2005, a song for voice and piano, The Unseen Playmate, on Stevenson's poem. This song is also included in Deri's one-act opera Markheim (2008).^[5]
The Lithuanian composer Giedrius Alkauskas (born 1978) arranged five poems—"The Wind" (two alternative arrangements), "Rain", "Singing", "Marching Song", and "At the Sea-side"—as a six-song cycle, A Child's Garden of Songs, for mezzo-soprano, piano, and trumpet in B♭, which was released in 2014.^[6]^[7]

References edit

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "A Child's Garden of Verses". Abe Books. Retrieved 4 April 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c Kuiper, Kathleen (23 March 2011). "A Child's Garden of Verses". Britannica. Archived from the original on 1 August 2015. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
^ "A child's garden of verses". Archive.org. Retrieved 31 August 2017.
^ Johnson, Jimmy (27 March 1971). "The Disneyland Records Story". Billboard. p. D-2. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
^ "Carlo Deri – Markheim". Teatrodioisa.pi.it. Retrieved 31 August 2017.
^ "Score of "A Child's Garden of Songs" on IMSLP". Imslp.org. Retrieved 31 August 2017.
^ "Recordings of the cycle "A Child's Garden of Songs"". YouTube. Retrieved 31 August 2017.