Romance

Read 'Romance' by 'Robert Louis Stevenson' and provide your summary and literary analysis in the comments section below.

Romance by Robert Louis Stevenson

 I WILL make you brooches and toys for your delight 
Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night. 
I will make a palace fit for you and me, 
Of green days in forests and blue days at sea. 

I will make my kitchen, and you shall keep your room, 
Where white flows the river and bright blows the broom, 
And you shall wash your linen and keep your body white 
In rainfall at morning and dewfall at night. 

And this shall be for music when no one else is near, 
The fine song for singing, the rare song to hear! 
That only I remember, that only you admire, 
Of the broad road that stretches and the roadside fire.

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September 14, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Hi! I found your poetry really inspiring. While reading it, I started imagining the scenes continuing from one stanza into another, almost like the visuals were moving forward alongside the poem. I’m a commission artist who works with written concepts and turns them into connected visual sequences. I’d love to explore creating that kind of continuous visual interpretation, following your poem stanza by stanza and allowing each part to naturally lead into the next. If you’d like to discuss the idea, you can reach me here: Discord: eve_verse Email:[email protected]
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