A Child's Garden of Verses
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A Child's Garden of Verses is a collection of poetry
Poetry
Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...

 for children by the Scottish
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 author Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. His best-known books include Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde....

. The collection first appeared in 1885 under the title Penny Whistles, but has been reprinted many times, often in illustrated versions. It contains about 65 poems including the cherished classics "Foreign Children," "The Lamplighter
The Lamplighter (poem)
The Lamplighter is a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson published in 1885 in Penny Whistles ....

," "The Land of Counterpane," "Bed in Summer," "My Shadow
My Shadow
"My Shadow" is a song by British recording artist Jessie J, from re-release her debut studio album Who You Are . Written by Jessica Cornish, The Invisible Men, The Fives and produced by same. The song is a mid-tempo where Jessie compares her lover to her shadow, in which they’ll always be around....

" and "The Swing."

The classical scholar Terrot Reaveley Glover published a translation of the poems into Latin in 1923 under the title Carmina non prius audita de ludis et hortis virginibus puerisque.

Ebook Version

Several ebook formats of this book are available for free at (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25617).


In Popular Culture

In The Simpsons Season 10 episode 2 The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace
The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace
"The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace" is the second episode of the tenth season of The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on September 20, 1998, and was viewed in approximately 7.95 million households that day. In the episode, Homer has a midlife crisis realizing his...

while at the library homer has a book titled 'A Child's Garden of Edison.'

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