Moral Emblems and Other Poems E-Book

Robert Louis Stevenson

• Herausgeber: Seltzer Books
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Seitenzahl: 22

Beschreibung

A short collection of short poems. According to Wikipedia: "Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson ( 1850 - 1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English literature. He was the man who "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins", as G. K. Chesterton put it. He was also greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Vladimir Nabokov, and J. M. Barrie. Most modernist writers dismissed him, however, because he was popular and did not write within their definition of modernism. It is only recently that critics have begun to look beyond Stevenson's popularity and allow him a place in the canon."

Leseprobe

MORAL EMBLEMS AND OTHER POEMS BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

published by Samizdat Express, Orange, CT, USA

established in 1974, offering over 14,000 books

Books and Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson:

Across the Plains

The Art of Writing

Ballads

Black Arrow

The Bottle Imp

Catriona or David Balfour (sequel to Kidnapped)

A Child's Garden of Verses

The Ebb-Tide

Edinburgh

Essays

Essays of Travel

Fables

Familiar Studies of Men and Books

Father Damien

Footnote to History

In the South Seas

An Inland Voyage

Island Nights' Entertainments

Kidnapped

Lay Morals

Letters

Lodging for the Night

Markheim

Master of Ballantrae

Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin

Memories and Portraits

Merry Men

Moral Emblems

New Arabian Nights

New Poems

The Pavilion on the Links

Four Plays

The Pocket R. L. S.

Prayers Written at Vailima

Prince Otto

Records of a Family of Engineers

The Sea Fogs

The Silverado Squatters

Songs of Travel

St. Ives

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Tales and Fantasies

Thrawn Janet

Travels with a Donkey

Treasure Island

Underwoods

Vailima Letters

Virginibus Puerisque

The Waif Woman

Weir of Hermiston

The Wrecker

The Wrong Box

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NOT I, AND OTHER POEMS

I.   Some like drink

II.  Here, perfect to a wish

III. As seamen on the seas

IV.  The pamphlet here presented

MORAL EMBLEMS: A COLLECTION OF CUTS AND VERSES

I.   See how the children in the print

II.  Reader, your soul upraise to see

III. A PEAK IN DARIEN - Broad-gazing on untrodden lands

IV.  See in the print how, moved by whim

V.   Mark, printed on the opposing page

MORAL EMBLEMS: A SECOND COLLECTION OF CUTS AND VERSES

I.   With storms a-weather, rocks-a-lee

II.  The careful angler chose his nook

III. The Abbot for a walk went out

IV.  The frozen peaks he once explored

V.   Industrious pirate! see him sweep

A MARTIAL ELEGY FOR SOME LEAD SOLDIERS

For certain soldiers lately dead

THE GRAVER AND THE PEN: OR, SCENES FROM NATURE, WITH APPROPRIATE

VERSES

I.    PROEM - Unlike the common run of men

II.   THE PRECARIOUS MILL - Alone above the stream it stands

III.  THE DISPUTATIOUS PINES - The first pine to the second said

IV.   THE TRAMPS - Now long enough had day endured

V.    THE FOOLHARDY GEOGRAPHER - The howling desert miles around

VI.   THE ANGLER AND THE CLOWN - The echoing bridge you here may

see

MORAL TALES

I.    ROBIN AND BEN: OR, THE PIRATE AND THE APOTHECARY - Come, lend

me an attentive ear

II.   THE BUILDER'S DOOM - In eighteen-twenty Deacon Thin

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NOT I, AND OTHER POEMS

Poem: NOT I

Some like drink

In a pint pot,

Some like to think;