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Child's Garden of Verses (Version 3)

A Child's Garden Of Verses is a collection of poems for children written by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The poems mainly concern childhood, illness, play, and solitude. - Summary by Roma Singh (1 hr 10 min)

Chapters

Bed in Summer

Young Night Thought

Pirate Story

Farewell to the Farm

The Land of Counterpane

Fairy Bread

Escape at Bedtime

A Good Play

Marching Song

Where Go the Boats

The Hayloft

Auntie's Skirts

The Moon

The Cow

Foreign Lands

System

At the Seaside

Happy Thought

The Land of Nod

Windy Nights

Time to Rise

Rain

Foreign Children

Looking Forward

My Shadow

The Sun's Travels

Looking-Glass River

The Lamplighter

Singing

Travel

My Bed is a Boat

Keepsake Mill

The Unseen Playmate

My Ship and I

The Wind

A Good Boy

Good and Bad Children

Picture-Books in Winter

The Swing

A Thought

Armies in the Fire

My Kingdom

Shadow March

Winter-Time

The Little Land

In Port

Night and Day

Nest Eggs

The Flowers

From a Railway Carriage

My Treasures

Block City

The Gardener