罗伯特·刘易斯·斯蒂文森是苏格兰小说家、散文家、诗人，是世界上最受欢迎的作家之一。他的激动人心的探险小说《化身博士》、《金银岛》和《绑架》不论是孩子还是成人一直都很喜欢。他的散文和游记堪称英文散文的典范，许多人都知道斯蒂文森是一位惊险小说作家，但很少人知道这位多病的作家原来也是一位了不起的诗人。收集在《一个孩子的诗园》中的诗歌也是儿童文学中的精品。每首诗都很短，文字简单，诗境却意味深长，无论中文译诗还是英文原文，都是极佳的学习诗歌写作的范本，本书为其原版作品。

Scottish novelist, poet and essayist Robert Louis Stevenson dedicated A Child"s Garden of Verses to Alison Cunningham, the nurse of his early childhood years in Edinburgh--a time whose essence he strove to recapture in the sixty-four poems of this long-treasured collection. Here, in "The Land of Counterpane" and "The Land of Nod," and in such delightful lyrics as ""My Bed Is a Boat," "Autumn Fires" and "Windy Nights," are rhymes and images children and their parents have cherished together since A Child"s Garden of Verses was first published in 1885.Alternately humorous and whimsical, grave and fearful, courageous and determined, the poems touchingly voice the many moods and currents of a child"s imaginings. All sixty-four poems are reprinted in this edition in large, easy-to-read type. New illustrations by Thea Kliros capture the magical spirit of this beloved classic of children"s literature.

TO ALISON CUNNINGHAM

Bed in Summer

A Thought

At the Sea-Side

Young Night Thought

Whole Duty of Children

Rain

Pirate Story

Foreign Lands

Windy Nights

Travel

Singing

Looking Forward

A Good Play

Where Go the Boats?

Auntie"s Skirts

The Land of Counterpane

The Land of Nod

My Shadow

System

A Good Boy

Escape at Bedtime

Marching Song

The Cow

Happy Thought

The W"md

Keepsake Mill

Good and Bad Children

Foreign Children

The Sun"s Travels

The Lamplighter

My Bed Is a Boat

The Moon

The Swing

Time to Rise

Looking-Glass River

Fairy Bread

From a Railway Carriage

Winter-Time

The Hayloft

Farewell to the Farm

North-West Passage

1. GOOD NIGHT

2. SHADOW MARCH

3. IN PORT

THE CHILD ALONE

The Unseen Playmate

My Ship and I

My Kingdom

Picture-Books in Winter

My Treasures

Block City

The Land of Story-Books

Armies in the Fire

The Little Land

GARDEN DAYS

Night and Day

Nest Eggs

The Flowers

Summer Sun

The Dumb Soldier

Autumn Fires

The Gardener

Historical Associations

ENVOYS

To Willie and Henrietta

To My Mother

To Auntie

To Minnie

To My Name-Child

To Any Reader

Alphabetical List of Titles

Alphabetical List of First Lines

And looked abroad on foreign lands

Marching, here we come!

All night across the dark we steer

Sailing blossoms, silver fishes

Let the sofa be mountains, the carpet be sea

Under grass alone he lies