A Child 's Garden of verses - Wikipedia A Child 's Garden of verses The Title Page of a 1916 Edition A Child 's Garden of Verses is a collection of poetry for children about childhood, illness, play and solitude by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The collection first appeared in 1885 under the title Penny Whistles, but has been reprinted many times, often in illustrated versions. It contains about 65 poems including the cherished classics `` Foreign Children, '' `` The Lamplighter, '' `` The Land of Counterpane, '' `` Bed in Summer, '' `` My Shadow '' and `` The Swing. '' The classical scholar Terrot Reaveley Glover published a translation of the poems into Latin in 1922 under the title Carmina non prius audita de ludis et hortis virginibus puerisque. Contents 1 Poems 2 Adaptations 3 References 4 External links Poems Happy Thought, as used in A Little Book for A Little Cook, 1905 Part I -- A Child 's Garden of Verses To Alison Cunningham Bed in Summer A Thought At the Sea - side Young Night Thought Whole Duty of Children Rain ( poem ) Pirate Story ( poem ) Foreign Lands Windy Nights Travelling Singing ( poem ) Looking Forward A Good Play Where Go the Boats ? Auntie 's Skirts The Land of Counterpane The Land of Nod My Shadow ( poem ) System ( poem ) A Good Boy Escape at Bedtime Marching Song The Cow Happy Thought The Wind Keepsake Mill Good and Bad Children Foreign Children The Sun 's Travels The Lamplighter ( poem ) My Bed is a Boat The Moon ( poem ) The Swing Time to Rise Looking - glass River Fairy Bread From a Railway Carriage Winter - time The Hayloft Farewell to the Farm Northwest Passage : Good Night, Shadow March, 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 Adaptations Disneyland Record released a LP record of the poems set to music. Gwyn Conger wrote the music which was performed by Francis Archer and Beverly Gile. The Italian composer Carlo Deri composed, in 2005, a song for voice and piano, The Unseen Playmate, on Stevenson 's poem. This song is also included in Deri 's one - act opera Markheim ( 2008 ). The contemporary Lithuanian composer Giedrius Alkauskas ( b. 1978 ) arranged five poems -- `` The Wind '' ( two alternative arrangements ), `` Rain '', `` Singing '', `` Marching Song '', and `` At the Sea - side '' -- as a six - song cycle, `` A Child 's Garden of Songs '', for mezzo - soprano, piano, and trumpet in B ♭, released in 2014. References Jump up ^ `` A child 's garden of verses ''. Archive.org. Retrieved 31 August 2017. Jump up ^ Charles H. Frey The Literary Heritage of Childhood : An Appraisal of Children 's... - 1987 -. 0313256810 `` Stevenson 's verses for children differ from the Mother Goose nursery rhymes and from the poems of Edward Lear in that... In the poem `` My Shadow, '' for instance, the speaker 's shadow becomes a kind of darker shadow self `` not at all like... Jump up ^ Johnson, Jimmy ( March 27, 1971 ). `` The Disneyland Records Story ''. Billboard. p. D - 2. Retrieved March 9, 2015. Jump up ^ `` Carlo Deri -- Markheim ''. Teatrodioisa.pi.it. Retrieved 31 August 2017. Jump up ^ `` Score of `` A Child 's Garden of Songs '' on IMSLP ``. Imslp.org. Retrieved 31 August 2017. Jump up ^ `` Recordings of the cycle `` A Child 's Garden of Songs '' ``. YouTube. Retrieved 31 August 2017. External links This article 's use of external links may not follow Wikipedia 's policies or guidelines. Please improve this article by removing excessive or inappropriate external links, and converting useful links where appropriate into footnote references. ( August 2017 ) Poetry portal Children 's literature portal A Child 's Garden of Verses at Bartleby.com A Child 's Garden of Verses from the Collections of the Library of Congress The CD `` Kirschbaumtage / Cherry Tree Days '' on the artists homepage A Child 's Garden of Verses public domain audiobook at LibriVox A Child 's Garden of Verses at Project Gutenberg -- no bibliographic data, no images ( Charles Scribner 's Sons, 1895 ; John Lane, 1895 ), illustrated by Charles Robinson ( Rand McNally, 1928 ; ( c ) R.H. Russell, 1900, and Rand McNally, 1902 ), illus. E. Mars and M.H. Squire ( Dodge Publishing, 1905 ), illus. Bessie Collins Pease ( Scribner 's, 1905 ), illus. Jessie Willcox Smith ( David McKay, ( 1908 ) ), illus. Millicent Sowerby ( M.A. Donahue, 1916 ), illus. Myrtle Sheldon ( born 1893 ) ( J.B. Lippincott, undated 5th printing ; ( c ) 1919 ), illus. Maria L. Kirk ( 1860 -- 1938 ) Robert Louis Stevenson Books An Inland Voyage ( 1878 ) Edinburgh : Picturesque Notes ( 1878 ) Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes ( 1879 ) The Silverado Squatters ( 1883 ) Memories and Portraits ( 1887 ) Across the Plains ( 1892 ) Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa ( 1892 ) The Amateur Emigrant ( 1895 ) Novels Treasure Island ( 1883 ) Prince Otto ( 1885 ) Kidnapped ( 1886 ) The Black Arrow ( 1888 ) The Master of Ballantrae ( 1889 ) The Wrong Box ( 1889 ) The Wrecker ( 1892 ) Catriona ( 1893 ) The Ebb - Tide ( 1894 ) Weir of Hermiston ( 1896 ) St. Ives ( 1897 ) Short story collections The Suicide Club ( 1878 ) The Rajah 's Diamond ( 1878 ) New Arabian Nights ( 1882 ) More New Arabian Nights : The Dynamiter ( 1885 ) The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables ( 1887 ) Island Nights ' Entertainments ( 1893 ) Tales and Fantasies ( 1905 ) Short stories `` The Pavilion on the Links '' ( 1880 ) `` The Merry Men '' ( 1882 ) `` The Body Snatcher '' ( 1884 ) `` Markheim '' ( 1885 ) `` Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde '' ( 1886 ) `` The Bottle Imp '' ( 1891 ) `` The Beach of Falesá '' ( 1892 ) `` The Isle of Voices '' ( 1893 ) Poetry A Child 's Garden of Verses ( 1885 ) Underwoods ( 1887 ) Songs of Travel and Other Verses ( 1896 ) Related Lloyd Osbourne Fanny Stevenson Isobel Osbourne Mount Vaea Writers ' Museum Robert Louis Stevenson State Park The Story of a Recluse ( unfinished ) Book This article about a collection of written poetry is a stub. 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Question: who penned a child's garden of verses
Answer: Robert Louis Stevenson