These poems lay scattered among collectors until the Bibliophile Society of Boston printed them, and Lloyd Osbourne’s preface explains why Stevenson kept many from every eye but his own. They include intimate love lyrics, spring songs, prayers, a verse letter to the Commissioners of Northern Lights, whose lighthouses his family built, and alternative drafts of familiar pieces.
A revealing glimpse of the young Stevenson for readers who know A Child’s Garden of Verses and want the man behind it. Download the free EPUB.