First published in 1885 under the title Penny Whistles , Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses , is a collection of sixty-five poems for children about darkness and solitude. Amongst the collection includes such classics as Foreign Children , The Lamplighter , The Land of Counterpane , Bed in Summer , My Shadow , and The Swing . Inspired by many of his personal experiences as a child, Stevenson in this collection evokes the loneliness of being young, which he personally felt growing up due to his many illnesses, the spirit of adventure that filled his imagination as a youth, and his recollections of friends, family, and nature during the times he spent playing in the gardens at Colinton Manse. A beautiful collection of poetry, A Child’s Garden of Verses is sure to evoke memories of youth in all its readers and delight the child in all of us. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper and includes the illustrations of Jessie Willcox Smith which first appeared in the 1905 edition.