Exploring Childhood Influences in Stevenson's Poetry

Welcome back to Season 18 of the Well Read Poem. During this season, we are offering our listeners six poems about family life. The poems selected for this season are quite various in style and manner, and have been chosen for the light they shed on relationships between parents and children, between husbands and wives, brothers and sisters. We hope that these readings will, in their small way, add a measure of comfort and happiness to the lives of our audience during these winter months.

Today's poem is "To My Mother" by Robert Louis Stevenson. Poem reading begins at timestamp 5:17.

To My Mother

by Robert Louis Stevenson

You too, my mother, read my rhymes For love of unforgotten times, And you may chance to hear once more The little feet along the floor.