greykit.poetry — Robert Louis Stevenson

• 1887 [robert-louis-stevenson] Requiem
  Underwoods

  Stevenson's eight-line epitaph for himself — under the wide and starry sky, glad did I live and gladly die; home is the sailor; home from sea, and the hunter home from the hill.

  #elegy#death#lyric#1880s
• 1885 [robert-louis-stevenson] From a Railway Carriage
  A Child's Garden of Verses

  Faster than fairies, faster than witches — bridges, hedges, painted stations, a child gathering brambles, a tramp, a mill and a river: each a glimpse and gone for ever.

  #children#travel#lyric#1880s
• 1885 [robert-louis-stevenson] The Swing
  A Child's Garden of Verses

  A child swings up in the air so blue — over the wall, over the countryside, down on the garden green — and up in the air and down.

  #children#lyric#joy#1880s