“My Bed Is a Boat” — Robert Louis Stevenson

4 thoughts on ““My Bed Is a Boat” — Robert Louis Stevenson”

1. I love the collection, but this is my favorite:

   In winter I get up at night
   And dress by yellow candle-light.
   In summer, quite the other way,
   I have to go to bed by day.

   I have to go to bed and see
   The birds still hopping on the tree,
   Or hear the grown-up people’s feet
   Still going past me in the street.

   And does it not seem hard to you,
   When all the sky is clear and blue,
   And I should like so much to play,
   To have to go to bed by day?

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2. Lovely. Could you post the details of the book? I think it is Stevenson’s “A Child’s Garden of Verses,” but what publisher, year, and illustrator?

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   1. Of course—
      From A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson; illustrated by Charles Robinson, 1895. Via the LOC’s rare books collection.

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3. I like this very much. Sometimes strange dreams lead us in strange places.

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