 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1885 - 124 str.
...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...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 shut my eyes and sail away... | |
 | 1900 - 516 str.
...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...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 in my room, beside the pier... | |
 | Thomas W. Handford - 1885 - 170 str.
...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 str.
...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...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 dark along the wall, And... | |
 | 1890 - 978 str.
..."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...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 shut my eyes and sail away,... | |
 | 1893 - 112 str.
...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...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 shut my eyes and sail away... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1893 - 364 str.
...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 the dark along the wall,... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 394 str.
...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...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 shut my eyes and sail away... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 394 str.
...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...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 shut my eyes and sail away... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 400 str.
...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...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 ; 1 shut my eyes and sail away... | |
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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 we steer;... 
