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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
Born on November 13, 1850, in Edinburgh, Scotland, Robert Louis Stevenson was a representative of neo-romanticism during the Modernist period. Though largely dismissed during much of the 20th century, he remains a favorite author of children's verse and is among the 25 most translated writers in the world...
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FURTHER READING
Poems About Childhood
"Out, Out—"
by Robert Frost
A Boy Juggling a Soccer Ball
by Christopher Merrill
A child said, What is the grass?
by Walt Whitman
anyone lived in a pretty how town
by E. E. Cummings
Birches
by Robert Frost
Blur
by Andrew Hudgins
Fern Hill
by Dylan Thomas
In the Waiting Room
by Elizabeth Bishop
Jabberwocky
by Lewis Carroll
Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
by William Wordsworth
Pledge
by Elizabeth Powell
The Children's Hour
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Lamb
by William Blake
The Swing
by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Block City  
by Robert Louis Stevenson

What are you able to build with your blocks?
Castles and palaces, temples and docks.
Rain may keep raining, and others go roam,
But I can be happy and building at home.

Let the sofa be mountains, the carpet be sea, 
There I'll establish a city for me:
A kirk and a mill and a palace beside,
And a harbor as well where my vessels may ride.

Great is the palace with pillar and wall,
A sort of a tower on top of it all,
And steps coming down in an orderly way
To where my toy vessels lie safe in the bay. 

This one is sailing and that one is moored:
Hark to the song of the sailors on board!
And see on the steps of my palace, the kings
Coming and going with presents and things! 
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