Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes About Birds

Quotes about: Birds

• Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Sympathy, Death, Memories

• In winter I get up at night
  And dress by yellow candle-light.
  In summer quite the other way,
  I have to go to bed by day.
  
  I have to go to bed and see
  The birds still hopping on the tree,
  Or hear the grown-up people's feet
  Still going past me in the street.
  
  And does it not seem hard to you,
  When all the sky is clear and blue,
  And I should like so much to play,
  To have to go to bed by day?

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Summer, Spring, Winter

  A Child's Garden of Verses "Bed in Summer" l. 1 (1885)

• Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door; Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shore Where neither piping bird nor peeping dawn Disturbs the eternal sleep, But in the stillness far withdrawn Our dreamless rest for evermore we keep.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Sleep, Doors, Bird

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.3712, Delphi Classics

• 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.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Song, Morning, Stars

  'Songs of Travel' (1896) 'I will make you brooches and toys for your delight'

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