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 Sense & Perception (26 Poems)
The Boy And The Skylark (Charles Lamb Poems)
A FABLE."A wicked action fear to do,When you are by yourself; for though You think you can conceal it,A little ...
On A Picture Of The Finding Of Moses By Pharoah’s Daughter (Charles Lamb Poems)
This picture does the story expressOf Moses in the bulrushes.How livelily the painter's handBy colours makes us understand!Moses that little ...
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 ...
The Two Bees (Charles Lamb Poems)
But a few words could William say, And those few could not speak plain,Yet thought he was a man one ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 Orange (Charles Lamb Poems)
The month was June, the day was hot,And Philip had an orange got,The fruit was fragrant, tempting, bright,Refreshing to the ...
The Sparrow And The Hen (Charles Lamb Poems)
A sparrow, when sparrows like parrots could speak, Addressed an old hen who could talk like a jay:Said he, "It's ...
Nurse Green (Charles Lamb Poems)
Your prayers you have said, and you've wished good night: What cause is there yet keeps my darling awake?This throb ...
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 ...
Prologue To Faulkener (Charles Lamb Poems)
A TRAGEDY BY WILLIAM GODWIN, 1807.An author who has given you all delightFurnished the tale our stage presents to-night.Some of ...
To A Young Lady, On Being Too Fond Of Music (Charles Lamb Poems)
Why is your mind thus all day long Upon your music set;Till reason's swallowed in a song, Or idle canzonet?I ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Fairy (Charles Lamb Poems)
Said Ann to Matilda, "I wish that we knewIf what we've been reading of fairies be true.Do you think that ...
The Rook And The Sparrows (Charles Lamb Poems)
A little boy with crumbs of breadMany a hungry sparrow fed.It was a child of little sense,Who this kind bounty ...
The Force Of Habit (Charles Lamb Poems)
A little child, who had desiredTo go and see the Park guns fired,Was taken by his maid that wayUpon the ...
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 ...
Incorrect Speaking (Charles Lamb Poems)
Incorrectness in your speech Carefully avoid, my Anna;Study well the sense of each Sentence, lest in any mannerIt misrepresent the ...
Neatness In Apparel (Charles Lamb Poems)
In your garb and outward clothing A reserv?d plainness use;By their neatness more distinguished Than the brightness of their hues.All ...
Parental Recollection (Charles Lamb Poems)
A child's a plaything for an hour; Its pretty tricks we tryFor that or for a longer space; Then tire, ...