IN winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer, quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day. I have to go to bed and see The birds still hopping on the tree, Or hear the grown-up people's feet Still going past me in the street.... Choice Literature - Page 1041912Full view - About this book
| Robert Louis Stevenson - Children's poetry - 1885 - 124 pages
...MINNIE 96 V. TO MY NAME-CHILD 99 VI. TO ANY READER IOI A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES I BED IN SUMMER TN winter I get up at night *- And dress by yellow candle-light....hear the grown-up people's feet Still going past me in the street. And does it not seem hard to you, When all the sky is clear and blue, And I should like... | |
| American periodicals - 1885 - 850 pages
...show us when our life shall cease. Chambers' Journal. JE PANTON. BED IN SUMMER. IN winter, I get up bv night, And dress by yellow candle-light, In summer,...hear the grown-up people's feet Still going past me in the street. And does it not seem hard to you, When all the sky is clear and blue, And I should like... | |
| 1892 - 968 pages
...deliciously real than these verses ? " In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle light ; In summer, quite the other way, I have to go to bed...see The birds still hopping on the tree, Or hear the grown-np people s feet Still going past me in the street. And does it not seem hard to you. That when... | |
| Kindergarten - 1916 - 336 pages
...mothers' meetings it may be well to read Stevenson's memory of his childhood as it appears in verse In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light....bed by day. I have to go to bed and see The birds кШ1 hopping on the tree Or hear the grown-up people's feet Still going past me in the street. And... | |
| Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Nora Archibald Smith - Child development - 1892 - 264 pages
...deliciously real than these verses ? " In winter I get up at night, And dress by yellow candle light: In summer, quite the other way, I have to go to bed...to bed and see The birds still hopping on the tree, And hear the grown-up people's feet Still going past me on the street. And does it not seem hard to... | |
| Children - 1893 - 112 pages
...ran on ; But I have heard say, That she never could find Where the brook ran away. BED IN SUMMER. In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light....hear the grown-up people's feet Still going past me in the street. And does it not seem hard to you, When all the sky is clear and blue, And I should like... | |
| Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin - Child rearing - 1893 - 268 pages
...deliciously real than these verses ? " In winter I get up at night, And dress by yellow candle light : In summer, quite the other way, I have to go to bed...to go to bed and see The birds still hopping on the t*ee, And hear the grown-up people's feet Still going past me on the street. And does it not seem hard... | |
| Readers - 1898 - 216 pages
...cat, That ate the kid, That my father bought For two pieces of money : A kid, a kid. BED IN SUMMER. In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light....summer quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day. 182 1 have to go to bed and see The birds still hopping on the tree, Or hear the grown-up people's... | |
| Mormons - 1893 - 648 pages
...deliciously real than these verses? ••In winter I get up at night, And dress by yellow caudle light: In summer, quite the other way. I have to go to bed by day ; J have to go to bed and seo The birds still hopping on the tree. And hear the grown-up people's feet... | |
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