A Poem for a Thursday #220

Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer. He is best known for such works as Treasure Island, A Children’s Garden of Verses, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. A main theme running through his writing is the “impossibility of identifying and separating good and evil.”

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,
Where white flows the river and bright blows the bloom,
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!
That only I remember, that only you admire,
Of the broad road that stretches and the roadside fire.

I Will Make You Brooches
Robert Louis Stevenson