Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
Robert Louis Stevenson. 18501894846. Romance
I WILL make you brooches and toys for your delight | |
Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night. | |
I will make a palace fit for you and me, | |
Of green days in forests and blue days at sea. | |
I will make my kitchen, and you shall keep your room, | 5 |
Where white flows the river and bright blows the broom, | |
And you shall wash your linen and keep your body white | |
In rainfall at morning and dewfall at night. | |
And this shall be for music when no one else is near, | |
The fine song for singing, the rare song to hear! | 10 |
That only I remember, that only you admire, | |
Of the broad road that stretches and the roadside fire. |