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Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson

Singing

From Child's Garden of Verses
Of speckled eggs the birdie sings
And nests among the trees;
The sailor sings of ropes and things
In ships upon the seas.
The children sing in far Japan,
The children sing in Spain;
The organ with the organ man
Is singing in the rain.
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  • Rain A Q — from the same A Child's Garden of Verses
  • A Good Play A Q — both from A Child's Garden of Verses
  • Looking Forward — also in A Child's Garden of Verses
  • Shadow March A Q — companion piece in Poems for Children — Stevenson’s Verse for Young Readers
  • Windy Nights A Q — both from A Child's Garden of Verses

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  • Rudyard Kipling — contemporary (Stevenson praised Kipling as the most promising young writer of the era)
  • William Blake — Pioneered child-speaker poetry in Songs of Innocence (1789)
  • William Wordsworth — Shared interest in how perception shapes experience, though Stevenson's approach is lighter
  • Kahlil Gibran — Shared concern with spiritual surrender and the limitations of human will
  • William Ernest Henley — literary friendship (Close literary collaborator; Invictus shares thematic ground with The Vagabond)
  • Emily Dickinson — Shared themes of faith and nature
  • Edgar Allan Poe — influence (Later poet influenced by Poe's Gothic and fantasy tradition)
  • Lewis Carroll — contemporary (Victorian children's-verse contemporary; A Child's Garden of Verses parallels the Alice songs)

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