A Thought Comments

My Grammie had a family baby cup engraved with my name on it with this poem and i was to pass it down to my granddaughter but my mother gave it to my neice instead. Trying to find another one now.

Very much British kind of poem. Graceful and direct.

Nice poem

That is the worst thing to hear a Robotic delivery just Ruins the whole soul of this poem

Great thoughts and messages to the world in brief poem and it is so beautiful.

Short and sweet. Yet, it carries a huge message to the mankind, I feel. I enjoyed the poem.

I agree with Ramesh T A thatthis little piece here wasn't for all generations to grasp otherwise to modern man this sounds like an unfinished poem without disrespect. I love his Treasure Island though, so much!

saying grace, good one, I like it.

We most times think about our present state oblivious of what others are going through. Great write!

I feel these are the musings of a very hungry man.....

There is no evidence whatsoever that this poem is an ironical plea for the hungry of the world. It comes from A Child's Garden of Verses written for his childhood nurse and when Stevenson was a staunch conservative.

I believe (think) is the key word here.... it is very nice to think... i believe he realised it was not all so as people wished, hoped and expected...tyvm karen

It is a poem of his time and not suitable for a all times to read appreciate! He is not much remembered for his poems and appreciated other than his novel, The Treasure Island!

Great Thought Indeed.

thought provoking, hm

I like how pretentious everyone is on this site. It seriously makes me laugh every day I come here. (See, I understand irony!) Anyway, the poem is a thought, thought by a man who thought quite a lot. (I'm still doing it!) If he meant for it to be ironic, he didn't do a great job of getting that across. If it's just a thought, well... then it's just a thought.

A nice, good thought. Let is come true.

Have read your readers comments and despair - do not these people understand irony?

Maybe he meant well, with a little sarcasm and hint of hope. Interesting poem. I like it-short and to the point.

What a smug vacuous poem! When RLS was writing starvation was everywhere, not least in his own country Britain.