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 ...
Three young girls in friendship met;Mary, Martha, Margaret.Margaret was tall and fair,Martha shorter by a hair;If the first excelled in ...
I saw a famous fountain, in my dream, Where shady path-ways to a valley led;A weeping willow lay upon that ...
Alas! how am I chang'd! Where be the tears,The sobs, and forc'd suspensions of the breath,And all the dull desertions ...
To the Editor Mr. Editor,—The riddling lines which I send you, were written upon a young lady ...
"Fie upon't!All men are false, I think. The date of loveIs out, expired, its stories all grown stale,O'erpast, forgotten, like ...
Thou too art dead, ———! very kindHast thou been to me in my childish days,Thou best good creature. I have ...
A TRAGEDY BY WILLIAM GODWIN, 1807.An author who has given you all delightFurnished the tale our stage presents to-night.Some of ...
An infant is a selfish sprite;But what of that? the sweet delightWhich from participation springs,Is quite unknown to these young ...
To Jesus our Saviour some parents presented Their children—what fears and what hopes they must feel!When this the disciples would ...
Was it so hard a thing? I did but askA fleeting holiday, a little week.What if the jaded steer who ...
I have had playmates, I have had companions,In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days—All, all are gone, the ...
Brothers and sisters I have many:Though I know there is not anyOf them but I love, yet IWill just name ...
ON THE CELEBRATED PICTURE BY LEONARDO DA VINCI, CALLED THE VIRGIN OF THE ROCKSWhile young John runs to greetThe greater ...
I keep it, dear papa, within my glove."You do—what sum then usually, my love,Is there deposited? I make no doubt,Some ...
A FABLEOnce on a time, Love, Death, and Reputation,Three travellers, a tour together went;And, after many a long perambulation,Agreed to ...
Not a woman, child, or man inAll this isle, that loves thee, C—-ng.Fools, whom gentle manners sway,May incline to C—-gh,Princes, ...
Friend of my earliest years and childish days, My joys, my sorrows, thou with me hast shared,Companion dear, and we ...
O hush, my little baby brother; Sleep, my love, upon my knee.What though, dear child, we've lost our mother; That ...
In one great man we view with oddsA parallel to all the gods.Great Jove, that shook heaven with his brow,Could ...
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