Selected Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson

The famous author comes to life in this rare collection of poetry.


Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. His best-known books include Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.


A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks among the 30 most translated authors in the world, just below Charles Dickens. He has been greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Marcel Schwob, Vladimir Nabokov, J. M. Barrie, and G. K. Chesterton, who said of him that he "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins."


Contents of Poems Include:

• Ad Nepotem

• Ad Olum

• Ad Piscatorem

• Ad Quintilianum

• Ad Se Ipsum

• After Reading Antony And Cleopatra

• Air Of Diabelli's

• An English Breeze

• Apologetic Postscript Of A Year Later

• As In Their Flight The Birds Of Song

• As One Who Having Wandered All Night Long

• At Last She Comes

• Autumn Fires

• Away With Funeral Music

• Before This Little Gift Was Come

• Behold, As Goblins Dark Of Mien

• Christmas At Sea

• Come From The Daisied Meadows

• Come, Here Is Adieu To The City

• Come, My Beloved, Hear From Me

• De Coenatione Micae

• De Erotio Puella

• De Hortis Julii Martialis

• De Ligurra

• De M. Antonio

• 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, Whom Apollo Somtime Visited

• In Charidemum

• In Lupum

• In Maximum

• In The Green And Gallant Spring

• In The Highlands

• It Blows A Snowing Gale

• It's Forth Across The Roaring Foam

• Know You The River Near To Grez

• Late, O Miller

• 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

• Loud And Low In The Chimney

• Love, What Is Love

• Love's Vicissitudes

• Man Sails The Deep Awhile

• Men Are Heaven's Piers

• Mine Eyes Were Swift To Know Thee

• Sonnet Viii

• 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

• Swallows Travel To And Fro

• Tales Of Arabia

• Tempest Tossed And Sore Afflicted

• The Angler Rose, He Took His Rod

• The Bour-tree Den

• The Clock's Clear Voice Into The Clearer Air

• The Far-farers

• The Land Of Story-books

• The Old Chimaeras. Old Recipts

• The Piper

• The Relic Taken, What Avails The Shrine?

• The Summer Sun Shone Round Me

• The Unseen Playmate

• The Vanquished Knight

• The Wind

• The Wind Blew Shrill And Smart

• The Wind Is Without There And Howls In The Trees

• This Gloomy Northern Day

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