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Lyric Poem · For Kids

The Land of Nod

by Robert Louis Stevenson · 1885

From breakfast on through all the day

At home among my friends I stay;

But every night I go abroad

Afar into the land of Nod.

All by myself I have to go,

With none to tell me what to do—

All alone beside the streams

And up the mountain-sides of dreams.

The strangest things are there for me,

Both things to eat and things to see,

And many frightening sights abroad

Till morning in the land of Nod.

Try as I like to find the way,

I never can get back by day,

Nor can remember plain and clear

The curious music that I hear.

This poem is in the public domain.

“The Land of Nod” by Robert Louis Stevenson — quilloak.com/poems/the-land-of-nod

Quick facts

Poem
The Land of Nod
Poet
Robert Louis Stevenson
Published
1885
Length
16 lines
Form
Lyric Poem, Rhyming Poems
Themes
For Kids, Dreams & Sleep
Lyric PoemRhyming PoemsFor KidsDreams & Sleep

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