Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses (1885) is one of the most beloved collections of children’s poetry ever written. With a poet’s ear for rhythm and a child’s sharp eye for the world, Stevenson captures the pleasures and fears of childhood — night shadows, autumn leaves, swings, and the cosy safety of a bed at night — in verse that adults remember long after childhood has passed.
Poems like ‘The Swing’ and ‘My Shadow’ have become part of the shared memory of English-speaking childhood. This free EPUB presents the complete collection cleanly formatted for any device.