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Title Page of a 1916 US edition. 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]
Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as Treasure Island , Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde , Kidnapped and A Child's Garden of Verses .
Five Childhood Lyrics is a choral composition by John Rutter, who set five texts, poems and nursery rhymes, for mixed voices (SATB with some divisi) a cappella. [1] Rutter composed the work for the London Concord Singers who first performed them in 1973. [2] The five movements are: [2] Monday's Child; The Owl and the Pussycat; Windy Nights
Although Hodge was not Johnson's only cat, it was Hodge whom he considered his favourite. Hodge was remembered in various forms, from biographical mentions during Johnson's life to poems written about the cat. On his death, Hodge's life was celebrated in An Elegy on The Death of Dr Johnson's Favourite Cat by Percival Stockdale (published 1778).
Poetry recitation: The Watts Prophets "Listen (What It Is)" (George Johnson, Louis Johnson) (4:16) Lead vocals: George Johnson and Paulette McWilliams "Just a Little Taste of Me" (George Johnson, Louis Johnson) (3:28) Lead vocals: George Johnson "My Cherie Amour" (Stevie Wonder, Henry Cosby, Sylvia Moy) (5:25) Flute: Hubert Laws
The Lamplighter is a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson contained in his 1885 collection A Child's Garden of Verses. This poem may be autobiographical. Stevenson was sickly growing up (probably tuberculosis), thus "when I am stronger" may refer to his hope of recovery. Further, his illness isolated him, so the loneliness expressed in the poem would ...
Underwoods is a collection of poems by Robert Louis Stevenson published in 1887.It comprises two books, Book I with 38 poems in English, Book II with 16 poems in Scots.He says in the initial note that "I am from the Lothians myself; it is there I heard the language spoken about my childhood; and it is in the drawling Lothian voice that I repeat it to myself."
Cover of The Napoleon of Notting Hill. Chesterton, Gilbert Keith (1900), Greybeards at Play (poetry), London: R. Brimley Johnson. ——— (1900), The Wild Knight and Other Poems (poetry).