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Robert Louis Stevenson
was born in
1850, in
Edinburgh, Scotland. He was a sickly individual and struggled against poor
health and tuberculosis throughout his life. He studied law at University and
was admitted to the bar in 1875, but never practiced due to an ever growing
passion for writing. In 1880, at the age of thirty, he married Frances Osbourne,
an American divorcee ten years his senior. In 1883 he wrote the first of the two
books for which he is best known, Treasure Island, and in 1886, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. In search of climates that
would be better suited to his fragile health, he moved to one of the Islands in
what is now Western Samoa in 1889 and continued to write, but eventually
succumbed to ill health and died
in 1894. |
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Robert Louis
Stevenson
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Bed in Summer
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
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About this poem:
A touch of nostalgia today this poem has charmed and enchanted many people when
they were children with its hints of faraway lands and strange
conditions. It is still a pretty nice poem with quite evocative images
without being descriptive.
candle-light: a la luz de una vela
quite the other way: todo lo contrario
hopping: saltando
grown-up people: los mayores
hard: penoso, miserable, lamentable |
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