Last March, The New York Sun offered “Windy Nights” as its Poem of the Day, and perhaps it’s time to revisit Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894), this time for a winter poem. His collection, “A Child’s Garden of Verses,” appeared in 1885, and it quickly became the most widely read and influential volume of children’s poetry ever written (leaving aside “Mother Goose”). He was the bridge between two worlds: the comic nonsense and sentimental poetry of the mid-Victorians, and the sardonic and clever children’s verse of the Edwardians. Despite that role, however, he seems to have faded. Who still gives copies of “A Child’s Garden of Verses” to nieces and nephews for Christmas? Who still recites “The world is so full of a number of things, / I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings”? Not enough of us. In “Winter-Time,” Stevenson deploys his beloved tetrameter couplets to present the child’s sense of winter.