The Three Friends (Charles Lamb Poems)
Three young girls in friendship met;Mary, Martha, Margaret.Margaret was tall and fair,Martha shorter by a hair;If the first excelled in ...
Charles Lamb Poems on Friendship (24 Poems)
Written A Year After The Events (Charles Lamb Poems)
Alas! how am I chang'd! Where be the tears,The sobs, and forc'd suspensions of the breath,And all the dull desertions ...
Conquest Of Prejudice (Charles Lamb Poems)
Unto a Yorkshire school was sent A negro youth to learn to write,And the first day young Juba went All ...
The Ape (Charles Lamb Poems)
To the Editor Mr. Editor,—The riddling lines which I send you, were written upon a young lady ...
Moderation In Diet (Charles Lamb Poems)
The drunkard's sin, excess in wine, Which reason drowns, and health destroys,As yet no failing is of thine, Dear Jim; ...
The Duty Of A Brother (Charles Lamb Poems)
Why on your sister do you look, Octavius, with an eye of scorn,As scarce her presence you could brook?— Under ...
A Dramatic Fragment (Charles Lamb Poems)
"Fie upon't!All men are false, I think. The date of loveIs out, expired, its stories all grown stale,O'erpast, forgotten, like ...
Wasps In A Garden (Charles Lamb Poems)
The wall-trees are laden with fruit; The grape, and the plum, and the pear,The peach and the nectarine, to suit ...
Written On The Day Of My Aunt’s Funeral (Charles Lamb Poems)
Thou too art dead, ———! very kindHast thou been to me in my childish days,Thou best good creature. I have ...
Written Soon After The Preceding Poem (Charles Lamb Poems)
Thou should'st have longer liv'd, and to the graveHave peacefully gone down in full old age!Thy children would have tended ...
To Charles Lloyd: An Unexpected Visitor (Charles Lamb Poems)
Alone, obscure, without a friend, A cheerless, solitary thing,Why seeks, my Lloyd, the stranger out? What offering can the stranger ...
Time Spent In Dress (Charles Lamb Poems)
In many a lecture, many a book, You all have heard, you all have read,That time is precious. Of its ...
Written Christmas Day 1797 (Charles Lamb Poems)
I am a widow'd thing, now thou art gone!Now thou art gone, my own familiar friend,Companion, sister, help-mate, counsellor!Alas! that ...
Lines Addressed From London, To Sara And S.T.C. At Bristol, In The Summer Of 1796 (Charles Lamb Poems)
Was it so hard a thing? I did but askA fleeting holiday, a little week.What if the jaded steer who ...
The Confidant (Charles Lamb Poems)
Anna was always full of thought As if she'd many sorrows known,Yet mostly her full heart was fraught With troubles ...
The Old Familiar Faces (Charles Lamb Poems)
I have had playmates, I have had companions,In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days—All, all are gone, the ...
To Charles Lloyd (Charles Lamb Poems)
A stranger, and alone, I past those scenesWe past so late together; and my heartFelt something like desertion, when I ...
The Young Letter Writer (Charles Lamb Poems)
Dear Sir, Dear Madam, or Dear Friend, With ease are written at the top;When those two happy words are penned, ...
Hypochondria (Charles Lamb Poems)
By myself walking,To myself talking,When as I ruminateOn my untoward fate,Scarcely seem IAlone sufficiently,Black thoughts continuallyCrowding my privacy;They come unbidden,Like ...
Home Delights (Charles Lamb Poems)
To operas and balls my cousins take me,And fond of plays my new-made friend would make me.In summer season, when ...
Good Temper (Charles Lamb Poems)
In whatsoever place residesGood Temper, she o'er all presides;The most obdurate heart she guides.Even Anger yields unto her power,And sullen ...
Why Not Do It, Sir, Today? (Charles Lamb Poems)
Why so I will, you noisy bird, This very day I'll advertise you, Perhaps some busy ones may ...
Love, Death, And Reputation (Charles Lamb Poems)
A FABLEOnce on a time, Love, Death, and Reputation,Three travellers, a tour together went;And, after many a long perambulation,Agreed to ...
Sonnet To A Friend (Charles Lamb Poems)
Friend of my earliest years and childish days, My joys, my sorrows, thou with me hast shared,Companion dear, and we ...