In a poem by this author, the "sheep bell and the linnets" sing between "those two black infinities between which our brief life flashes a moment and goes out."
In a poem by this author, the "sheep bell and the linnets" sing between "those two black infinities between which our brief life flashes a moment and goes out." Another of this author's poems describes an entity that "sometimes shoots up taller like an india-rubber ball," and "sometimes gets so little that there's none of him at all." This author ended a collection with an address "To Any Reader" warning them that its subjects cannot be "lured out of this book." This author compared a bed to a boat, and imagined that we visit the "Land of (*) Nod" when we go to sleep, in that collection, which includes his poem "My Shadow." This author's most famous poem declares "this be the verse you grave for me," and ends "Home is the sailor, home from sea, and the hunter home from the hill." One of his novels includes a poem of sorts that goes "Fifteen men on the dead man's chest, Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!" For 10 points, name this poet of "Requiem" and A Child's Garden of Verses, whose novels include The Master of Ballantrae and Treasure Island.
In a poem by this author, the "sheep bell and the linnets" sing between "those two black infinities between which our brief life flashes a moment and goes out."
Robert Louis Stevenson