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 Mind (27 Poems)
David (Charles Lamb Poems)
It is not always to the strongVictorious battle shall belong.This found Goliath huge and tall:Mightiest giant of them all,Who in ...
A Vision Of Repentance (Charles Lamb Poems)
I saw a famous fountain, in my dream, Where shady path-ways to a valley led;A weeping willow lay upon that ...
The Magpie’s Nest, Or A Lesson Of Docility (Charles Lamb Poems)
A FABLEWhen the arts in their infancy were, In a fable of old 'tis exprest,A wise magpie constructed that rare ...
The Ape (Charles Lamb Poems)
To the Editor Mr. Editor,—The riddling lines which I send you, were written upon a young lady ...
The Text (Charles Lamb Poems)
One Sunday eve a grave old man, Who had not been at church, did say,"Eliza, tell me, if you can, ...
Living Without God In The World (Charles Lamb Poems)
Mystery of God! thou brave & beauteous world!Made fair with light, & shade, & stars, & flowers;Made fearful and august ...
On An Infant Dying As Soon As Born (Charles Lamb Poems)
I SAW where in the shroud did lurkA curious frame of Nature's work;A floweret crush'd in the bud,A nameless piece ...
The Boy And The Snake (Charles Lamb Poems)
Henry was every morning fedWith a full mess of milk and bread.One day the boy his breakfast took,And eat it ...
On The Lord’s Prayer (Charles Lamb Poems)
I have taught your young lips the good words to say over, Which form the petition we call the Lord's ...
The Lame Brother (Charles Lamb Poems)
My parents sleep both in one grave; My only friend's a brother.The dearest things upon the earth We are to ...
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 ...
Cleanliness (Charles Lamb Poems)
Come, my little Robert, near—Fie! what filthy hands are here—Who that e'er could understandThe rare structure of a hand,With 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 ...
Queen Oriana’s Dream (Charles Lamb Poems)
On a bank with roses shaded,Whose sweet scent the violets aided,Violets whose breath aloneYields but feeble smell or none,(Sweeter bed ...
Hester (Charles Lamb Poems)
WHEN maidens such as Hester dieTheir place ye may not well supply,Though ye among a thousand try With ...
Thoughtless Cruelty (Charles Lamb Poems)
There, Robert, you have killed that fly,And should you thousand ages tryThe life you've taken to supply, You could not ...
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 ...
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 New-Born Infant (Charles Lamb Poems)
Whether beneath sweet beds of roses,As foolish little Ann supposes,The spirit of a babe reposes Before it to the body ...
What Is Fancy? (Charles Lamb Poems)
SISTER.I am to write three lines, and youThree others that will rhyme.There—now I've done my task.BROTHER.Three stupid lines as e'er ...
Memory (Charles Lamb Poems)
For gold could Memory be bought, What treasures would she not be worth?If from afar she could be brought, I'd ...
Written In The First Leaf Of A Child’s Memorandum-B (Charles Lamb Poems)
My neat and pretty book, when I thy small lines seeThey seem for any use to be unfit for me.My ...
The Two Boys (Charles Lamb Poems)
I saw a boy with eager eyeOpen a book upon a stall,And read as he'd devour it all:Which when the ...
Sonnet (Charles Lamb Poems)
St. Crispin to Mr. Gifford.All unadvised, and in an evil hour, Lured by aspiring thoughts, my son, you daft The ...
Beauty’s Song (Charles Lamb Poems)
What's Life still changing ev'ry hour?Tis all the seasons in a Day!The Smile, the Tear, the Sun, the Show'r"Tis now ...