Robert Louis Stevenson

Selected Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson: with Biography.

Publisher Marketing: Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 - 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. His best-known books include Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks among the 30 most translated authors in the world, just below Charles Dickens. He has been greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Marcel Schwob, Vladimir Nabokov, J. M. Barrie, and G. K. Chesterton, who said of him that he "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins." Contents of Poems Include: Ad Nepotem Ad Olum Ad Piscatorem Ad Quintilianum Ad Se Ipsum After Reading Antony And Cleopatra Air Of Diabelli's An English Breeze Apologetic Postscript Of A Year Later As In Their Flight The Birds Of Song As One Who Having Wandered All Night Long At Last She Comes Autumn Fires Away With Funeral Music Before This Little Gift Was Come Behold, As Goblins Dark Of Mien Christmas At Sea Come From The Daisied Meadows Come, Here Is Adieu To The City Come, My Beloved, Hear From Me De Coenatione Micae De Erotio Puella De Hortis Julii Martialis De Ligurra De M. Antonio I Know Not How, But As I Count I Love To Be Warm By The Red Fireside I Now, O Friend, Whom Noiselessly The Snows I Who All The Winter Through I, Whom Apollo Somtime Visited In Charidemum In Lupum In Maximum In The Green And Gallant Spring In The Highlands It Blows A Snowing Gale It's Forth Across The Roaring Foam Know You The River Near To Grez Late, O Miller Let Love Go, If Go She Will Light As The Linnet On My Way I Start Lo! In Thine Honest Eyes I Read Lo, Now, My Guest Long Time I Lay In Little Ease Loud And Low In The Chimney Love, What Is Love Love's Vicissitudes Man Sails The Deep Awhile Men Are Heaven's Piers Mine Eyes Were Swift To Know Thee Sonnet Viii Soon Our Friends Perish Spring Carol Spring Song St. Martin's Summer Still I Love To Rhyme Stout Marches Lead To Certain Ends Strange Are The Ways Of Men Swallows Travel To And Fro Tales Of Arabia Tempest Tossed And Sore Afflicted The Angler Rose, He Took His Rod The Bour-tree Den The Clock's Clear Voice Into The Clearer Air The Far-farers The Land Of Story-books The Old Chimaeras. Old Recipts The Piper The Relic Taken, What Avails The Shrine? The Summer Sun Shone Round Me The Unseen Playmate The Vanquished Knight The Wind The Wind Blew Shrill And Smart The Wind Is Without There And Howls In The Trees This Gloomy Northern Day Biography Contributor Bio:  Stevenson, Robert Louis Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson was a prolific Scottish poet and novelist in the 19th century. He was admired by many other authors, and his work includes The Black Arrow, Kidnapped, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. He died in 1894. Contributor Bio:  El Bey, Z Saint Francis of Assisi (Giovanni Francesco Bernardone; born 1181/1182 - October 3, 1226) was a Catholic deacon and the founder of the Order of Friars Minor, more commonly known as the Franciscans. He is known as the patron saint of animals, the environment and Italy, and it is customary for Catholic churches to hold ceremonies honoring animals around his feast day of 4 October. In 1201, he joined a military expedition against Perugia, he was taken as a prisoner at Collestrada, and spent a year as a captive. It is probable that his conversion to more serious thoughts was a gradual process relating to this experience. Upon his return to Assisi in 1203, Francis returned to his carefree life and in 1204, a serious illness led to a spiritual crisis. In 1205 Francis left for Puglia to enlist in the army of the Count of Brienne. In Spoleto, a strange vision made him return to Assisi, deepening his ecclesiastical awakening. St Francis of Assisi celebrated Christmas by setting up the first known three-dimensional presepio or creche (Nativity scene) in the town of Greccio near Assisi, around 1220. He used real animals to create a living scene so that the worshipers could contemplate the birth of the child Jesus in a direct way, making use of the senses, especially sight. Thomas of Celano, a biographer of Francis and Saint Bonaventure both tell how he only used a straw-filled manger (feeding trough) set between a real ox and donkey. According to Thomas, it was beautiful in its simplicity with the manger acting as the altar for the Christmas Mass. Saint Francis is considered the first Italian poet by literary critics. He believed commoners should be able to pray to God in their own language, and he wrote always in the dialect of Umbria instead of Latin. His writings are considered to have great literary value, as well as religious.