Today’s Poem: Bed in Summer

Robert Louis Stevenson and a child’s experience

Berthe Morisot, Enfant au lit, c. 1890 (Wikimedia Commons)

Bed in Summer

by Robert Louis Stevenson

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 st…