Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FOREIGN LANDS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up into the cherry tree Last Line: And all the playthings come alive. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 8 Subject(s): Children; Imagination; Childhood; Fancy | ||||||||
UP into the cherry tree Who should climb but little me? I held the trunk with both my hands And looked abroad on foreign lands. I saw the next-door garden lie, Adorned with flowers, before my eye, And many pleasant faces more That I had never seen before. I saw the dimpling river pass And be the sky's blue looking-glass; The dusty roads go up and down With people tramping in to town. If I could find a higher tree Farther and farther I should see, To where the grown-up river slips Into the sea among the ships, To where the roads on either hand Lead onward into fairy land, Where all the children dine at five, And all the playthings come alive. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE IMAGINED COPPERHEAD by ANDREW HUDGINS A SICK CHILD by RANDALL JARRELL IMAGINARY TROUBLE by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS EVERYTHING THAT ACTS IS ACTUAL by DENISE LEVERTOV ON THE MEETING OF GARCIA LORCA AND HART CRANE by PHILIP LEVINE A GOOD PLAY by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON |
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