| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| The Land of Nod |
| | | Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–94) |
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| 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. | |
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| All by myself I have to go, | 5 |
| With none to tell me what to do— | |
| All alone beside the streams | |
| And up the mountain-sides of dreams. | |
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| The strangest things are there for me, | |
| Both things to eat and things to see, | 10 |
| And many frightening sights abroad | |
| Till morning in the land of Nod. | |
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| Try as I like to find the way, | |
| I never can get back by day, | |
| Nor can remember plain and clear | 15 |
| The curious music that I hear. | |
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