Classic and Contemporary Poetry
STEVENSON'S BIRTHDAY, by KATHERINE WISE MILLER First Line: How I should like a birthday!' said the child?' Last Line: Not part of time, but immortality. Subject(s): Birthdays; Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894) | ||||||||
"How I should like a birthday!" said the child, "I have so few, and they so far apart." She spoke to Stevenson -- the Master smiled -- "Mine is to-day; I would with all my heart That it were yours; too many years have I! Too swift they come, and all too swiftly fly." So by a formal deed he there conveyed All right and title in his natal day, To have and hold, to sell or give away, -- Then signed, and gave it to the little maid. Joyful, yet fearing to believe too much, She took the deed, but scarcely dared unfold. Ah, liberal Genius! at whose potent touch All common things shine with transmuted gold! A day of Stevenson's will prove to be Not part of Time, but Immortality. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 21. REQUIEM by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON DERELICT; A REMINISCENCE OF R.L.S.'S TREASURE ISLAND by YOUNG EWING ALLISON AT THE ROADHOUSE: IN MEMORY OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON by BLISS CARMAN R.L.S. IN MEMORIAM by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON THE LOST FRIEND by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE R. L. S. by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE TO TUSITALA IN VAILIMA by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE ECHOES: 29 by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY RHYMES AND RHYTHMS: 19. R. L. S. (1850-1894) by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY THE STORY OF THE END OF THE STORY by JAMES GALVIN |
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