Charles Lamb Poems on World Archives - Famous Inspirational Poems, Poetry, Quotes

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 ...

Mystery of God! thou brave & beauteous world!Made fair with light, & shade, & stars, & flowers;Made fearful and august ...

Within the precincts of this yard,Each in his narrow confines barred,Dwells every beast that can be foundOn Afric or on ...

The drunkard's sin, excess in wine, Which reason drowns, and health destroys,As yet no failing is of thine, Dear Jim; ...

A dozen years since in this house what commotion, What bustle, what stir, and what joyful ado;Every soul in the ...

Your prayers you have said, and you've wished good night: What cause is there yet keeps my darling awake?This throb ...

As busy Aurelia, 'twixt work and 'twixt play, Was labouring industriously hardTo cull the vile weeds from the flowerets away, ...

Thou too art dead, ———! very kindHast thou been to me in my childish days,Thou best good creature. I have ...

Thou should'st have longer liv'd, and to the graveHave peacefully gone down in full old age!Thy children would have tended ...

My father's grandfather lives still, His age is fourscore years and ten;He looks a monument of time, The agedest of ...

Arrayed—a half angelic sight—In nests of pure baptismal white,The mother to the font doth bringThe little, helpless, nameless thing,With hushes ...

A stranger, and alone, I past those scenesWe past so late together; and my heartFelt something like desertion, when I ...

A little child, who had desiredTo go and see the Park guns fired,Was taken by his maid that wayUpon the ...

Charles Lamb Poems on World (14 Poems)