The Poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson · Chapter 2 of 358

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The Poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson

Here, Perfect to a Wish

Here, perfect to a wish,
We offer, not a dish,
But just the platter:
A book that’s not a book,
A pamphlet in the look
But not the matter.

I own in disarray;
As to the flowers of May
The frosts of Winter,
To my poetic rage,
The smallness of the page
And of the printer.