When I was down beside the sea
A wooden spade they gave to me
To dig the sandy shore.

My holes were empty like a cup.
In every hole the sea came up,
Till it could come no more.

(C) Robert Louis Stevenson
03/19/2017


Best Poems of Robert Louis Stevenson

• Wedding Prayer
• To Ottilie
• In Port
• Nest Eggs
• Strange Are The Ways Of Men
• I Will Make You Brooches
• Happy Thought
• After Reading "antony And Cleopatra"
• Foreign Children
• Singing
• What Man May Learn, What Man May Do
• Come, My Beloved, Hear From Me
• To My Mother
• System
• I, Whom Apollo Somtime Visited
• Small Is The Trust When Love Is Green
• The Land Of Story-books
• Ad Magistrum Ludi
• Romance
• Fairy Bread