Poetry Performed Episode 023 - Picture-books in Winter by Robert Louis Stevenson

Episode 023 - Picture-books in Winter by Robert Louis Stevenson
Curled up with a good book is a delightful way to spend a winter’s day, no matter what your age. This week, in “Picture-books in Winter”, Robert Louis Stevenson explores that idea from the perspective of a childhood spent in the nursery reading the winter away.

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Picture-books in Winter by Robert Louis Stevenson

Summer fading, winter comes—   
Frosty mornings, tingling thumbs   
Window robins, winter rooks,   
And the picture story-books.   
  
Water now is turned to stone
Nurse and I can walk upon;   
Still we find the flowing brooks   
In the picture story-books.   
  
All the pretty things put by,   
Wait upon the children’s eye,
Sheep and shepherds, trees and crooks,   
In the picture story-books.   
  
We may see how all things are,   
Seas and cities, near and far,   
And the flying fairies’ looks,
In the pictyure story-books.   
  
How am I to sing your praise,   
Happy chimney-corner days,   
Sitting safe in nursery nooks,   
Reading picture story-books?

That was Picture-books in Winter by Robert Louis Stevenson. Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish writer born in 1850. He is most famous for his novels, books like The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Treasure Island. His work has been widely translated, and he has long been admired by other writers - both in present day and his contemporaries. He died in 1894.

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