 Good-night to all my friends on shore; I shut my eyes and sail away And see and hear no more. And sometimes things to bed I take, As prudent sailors have to do; Perhaps a slice of wedding-cake, Perhaps a toy or two. All night across the dark...  The Sprague Classic Readers: Book One : a Primer - Page 67by Sarah E. Sprague - 1903 - 112 pagesFull view - About this book
 | College students' writings, American - 1900 - 516 pages
...unobtrusive suggestiveness of his verse compels. His most homely narratives are most child-like : " My bed is like a little boat ; Nurse helps me in when I embark ; She girds me in my sailor's coat And starts me in the dark. "All night across the dark we steer, But when the day returns at last Safe... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - Children's poetry - 1885 - 124 pages
...ladder and with light, O Leerie, see a little child and nod to him to-night ! 3> XXXI MY BED IS A BOAT MY bed is like a little boat ; Nurse helps me in when I embark ; She girds me in my sailor's coat And starts me in the dark. At night, I go on board and say Good night to all my friends on shore ;... | |
 | Thomas W. Handford - Children's poetry - 1885 - 170 pages
...on. Boy, may the eagle's flight ever be thine, Onward and upward, true to the line. MY BED IS A BOAT. My bed is like a little boat; Nurse helps me in when I embark ; She girds me in my sailor coat And starts me in the dark. At night I go on board and say Good-night to all my friends... | |
 | 1887 - 708 pages
...memory and how far by invention. The new book sets that question at rest; the same hand that gave us— My bed is like a little boat; Nurse helps me in when I embark; She girds me in my sailor's coat, And starts me in the dark; and the even more delicious— Now, with my little gun, I crawl All in the... | |
 | American periodicals - 1890 - 978 pages
..."The Land of Counterpane," and " My Bed is a Boat," are both admirable. I will quote the latter : — My bed is like a little boat; Nurse helps me in when I embark; She girds me in my sailor's coat, And starts me in the dark. At night, I go on board and say Good-night to all my friends on shore; I... | |
 | Children - 1893 - 112 pages
...Atlantic Sea; And all the children in the West Are getting up and being dressed. MY BED IS A BOAT. My bed is like a little boat; Nurse helps me in when I embark; She girds me in my sailor's coat And starts me in the dark. At night, I go on board and say Good-night to all my friends on shore ;... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1893 - 364 pages
...sets that question at rest ; the same hand that gave us — My bed is like a little boat ; Nurse heifs me in when I embark ; She girds me in my sailor's coat, And starts me in the dark ; and the even more delicious — Now, with my little gun, I crawl All in... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 400 pages
...ladder and with light, O Leerie, see a little child and nod to him to-night! XXXI MY BED IS A BOAT MY bed is like a little boat; Nurse helps me in when I embark ; She girds me in my sailor's coat And starts me in the dark. At night, I go on board and say Good-night to all my friends on shore ;... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 394 pages
...ladder and with light, O Leerie, see a little child and nod to him to-night ! XXXI MY BED IS A BOAT MY bed is like a little boat; Nurse helps me in when I embark; She girds me in my sailor's coat And starts me in the dark. At night, I go on board and say Good-night to all my friends on shore; I... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 394 pages
...with ladder and with light, O Leerie, see a little child and nod to him to-night! MY BED IS A BOAT MY bed is like a little boat; Nurse helps me in when I embark ; She girds me in my sailor's coat And starts me in the dark. At night, I go on board and say Good-night to all my friends on shore ;... | |
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