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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE LAND OF COUNTERPANE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: When I was sick and lay a-bed
Last Line: The pleasant land of counterpane.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 16
Subject(s): Beds; Children; Play; Sickness; Childhood; Illness
First Line: When I was sick and lay a-bed
Last Line: The pleasant land of counterpane.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 16
Subject(s): Beds; Children; Play; Sickness; Childhood; Illness
WHEN I was sick and lay a-bed,
I had two pillows at my head,
And all my toys beside me lay
To keep me happy all the day.
And sometimes for an hour or so
I watched my leaden soldiers go,
With different uniforms and drills,
Among the bed-clothes, through the hills;
And sometimes sent my ships in fleets
All up and down among the sheets;
Or brought my trees and houses out,
And planted cities all about.
I was the giant great and still
That sits upon the pillow-hill,
And sees before him, dale and plain,
The pleasant land of counterpane.
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