Robert Louis Stevenson, Edmund Gosse, Jessie Willcox Smith
A Child's Garden of Verses
eBook
( Dec. 16, 2012)
I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me,
And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head;
And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed…
“A Child’s Garden of Verses” is a collection of poetry for children by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894).
The collection first appeared in 1885.
The ebook contains about one hundred illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith (1863-1935).
It also has a biographical sketch of Stevenson written by British poet Edmund Gosse (1849-1928).