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 ...
But a few words could William say, And those few could not speak plain,Yet thought he was a man one ...
Our governess is not in school, So we may talk a bit;Sit down upon this little stool, Come, little Mary, ...
Henry was every morning fedWith a full mess of milk and bread.One day the boy his breakfast took,And eat it ...
SISTER.Do, my dearest brother John,Let that butterfly alone.BROTHER. What harm now do I do?You're always making such a noise—SISTER.O fie, ...
A CHILDModel of thy parent dear,Serious infant worth a fear:In thy unfaultering visage wellPicturing forth the son of Tell,When on ...
As busy Aurelia, 'twixt work and 'twixt play, Was labouring industriously hardTo cull the vile weeds from the flowerets away, ...
Joy to Philip, he this dayHas his long coats cast away,And (the childish season gone)Puts the manly breeches on.Officer on ...
The wall-trees are laden with fruit; The grape, and the plum, and the pear,The peach and the nectarine, to suit ...
Thou too art dead, ———! very kindHast thou been to me in my childish days,Thou best good creature. I have ...
Tell me what is the reason you hang down your head? From your blushes I plainly discernYou have done something ...
O what a joyous joyous day Is that on which we comeAt the recess from school away, Each lad to ...
A little boy with crumbs of breadMany a hungry sparrow fed.It was a child of little sense,Who this kind bounty ...
A dinner party, coffee, tea,Sandwich, or supper, all may beIn their way pleasant. But to meNot one of these deserves ...
A dinner party, coffee, tea,Sandwich, or supper, all may beIn their way pleasant. But to meNot one of these deserves ...
Anna was always full of thought As if she'd many sorrows known,Yet mostly her full heart was fraught With troubles ...
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 ...
Why so I will, you noisy bird, This very day I'll advertise you, Perhaps some busy ones may ...
I keep it, dear papa, within my glove."You do—what sum then usually, my love,Is there deposited? I make no doubt,Some ...
O hush, my little baby brother; Sleep, my love, upon my knee.What though, dear child, we've lost our mother; That ...
Time-mouldering crosses, gemmed with imagery Of costliest work and Gothic tracery,Point still the spot, to hallowed Wedlock dear, Where rested ...
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