A Childs Garden of Verses is a collection of poetry for children by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson The collection first appeared in 1885 under the title Penny Whistles but has been reprinted many times often in illustrated versions It contains about 65 poems including the cherished classics Foreign Children The Lamplighter The Land of Counterpane Bed in Summer My Shadow and The Swing The classical scholar Terrot Reaveley Glover publis...