Best Stevenson Poems

Little boy ill and in bed every day
couldn't join friends or go out and play.
Little lead soldiers marched on his bed,
many adventures whirled in his head.

The land of counterpane lay on the bed
his landscape sewn with needle and thread.
That quilt all wrinkled, crumpled, and more
are...

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Sense fables clear that tell so much,
Treats of fine thought in sublime plots;
Evoke and cheer fond feel and touch,
Voice dressed in lot that weaves each spot;
Echoes live well in tale and tact,
Notice the sweep of travel fare;
Sparkling scenes tell of myriad acts,
Observe the grip of...

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In an old-time real-book-with-pages feel in his day,
Robert Louis Stevenson wrote 'Treasure Island',
in his own inimitable way,
and tho' I know I may be wrong,
he could not have been pulling Long John Silver's leg,
as John would not have had a leg to stand on,
for, with his...

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