The Ape (Charles Lamb Poems)
To the Editor Mr. Editor,—The riddling lines which I send you, were written upon a young lady ...
To the Editor Mr. Editor,—The riddling lines which I send you, were written upon a young lady ...
DEAR BOB, you tell me I must write to you,And write in verse a pleasant recreation;But, O, the pen that ...
Is the house turned topsy-turvy?Does it ring from street to roof?Will the racket still continue,Spite of all your mild reproof?Are ...
There comes a time when we no longer say: my God.A time of absolute purity.A time when we no longer ...
69Low at my problem bending,Another problem comes-Larger than mine-Serener-Involving statelier sums.I check my busy pencil,My figures file away.Wherefore, my baffled ...
Muse of my native land! loftiest Muse! O first-born on the mountains! by the hues Of heaven on the spiritual ...
A bird that I don't know, Hunched on his light-pole like a scarecrow, Looks sideways out into the wheat The ...
WITH a bridegroom's joyous bearing, Mounts Sir Curt his noble beast, To his mistress' home repairing, There to hold his ...
IN Lombardy's fair land, in days of yore, Once dwelt a prince, of youthful charms, a store; Each FAIR, with ...
(The Dry Salvages-presumably les trois sauvages-is a small group of rocks, with a beacon, off the N.E. coast of Cape ...
Low at my problem bending, Another problem comes -- Larger than mine -- Serener -- Involving statelier sums. I check ...
It may indeed be fantasy when I Essay to draw from all created things Deep, heartfelt, inward joy that closely ...
PART I 'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock And the owls have awakened the crowing cock; Tu-whit!- ...
High stretched upon the swinging yard, I gather in the sheet; But it is hard And stiff, and one cries ...
The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, And if it take ...
See! Winter comes, to rule the varied Year, Sullen, and sad; with all his rising Train, Vapours, and Clouds, and ...
I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, Wherein at ease for aye to dwell. I said, "O Soul, make merry ...
Farewell Example, Living Rule farewell; Whose practise shew'd goodness was possible, Who reach'd the full outstretch'd perfection Of Man, of ...
VERSE I In a famed town of Caledonia's land, A prosperous port contiguous to the strand, A monarch feasted in ...
Meanwhile the new-baptized, who yet remained At Jordan with the Baptist, and had seen Him whom they heard so late ...
Down mildest shores of milk-white sand, By cape and fair Floridian bay, Twixt billowy pines -- a surf asleep on ...
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