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Poem by Robert Louis Stevenson


A Child's Garden of Verses. Envoys 3. To Auntie


"Chief of our aunts"--not only I,
But all your dozen of nurselings cry--
"What did the other children do?
And what were childhood, wanting you?" 



Robert Louis Stevenson

Poem Theme: Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson's other poems:
  1. I Know Not How, But As I Count
  2. Requiem
  3. Songs of Travel and Other Verses. 22. I HAVE trod the upward and the downward slope
  4. To Charles Baxter
  5. Songs of Travel and Other Verses. 18. THE stormy evening closes now in vain


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