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 ...
It is not always to the strongVictorious battle shall belong.This found Goliath huge and tall:Mightiest giant of them all,Who in ...
A FABLEWhen the arts in their infancy were, In a fable of old 'tis exprest,A wise magpie constructed that rare ...
Unto a Yorkshire school was sent A negro youth to learn to write,And the first day young Juba went All ...
To the Editor Mr. Editor,—The riddling lines which I send you, were written upon a young lady ...
I SAW where in the shroud did lurkA curious frame of Nature's work;A floweret crush'd in the bud,A nameless piece ...
I have taught your young lips the good words to say over, Which form the petition we call the Lord's ...
When I the memory repeatOf the heroic actions great,Which, in contempt of pain and death,Were done by men who drew ...
"Fie upon't!All men are false, I think. The date of loveIs out, expired, its stories all grown stale,O'erpast, forgotten, like ...
Why is your mind thus all day long Upon your music set;Till reason's swallowed in a song, Or idle canzonet?I ...
JANE.Mamma is displeased and looks very grave, And I own, brother, I was to blameJust now when I told her ...
In many a lecture, many a book, You all have heard, you all have read,That time is precious. Of its ...
On a bank with roses shaded,Whose sweet scent the violets aided,Violets whose breath aloneYields but feeble smell or none,(Sweeter bed ...
Abject, stooping, old, and wan,See yon wretched beggar-man;Once a father's hopeful heir,Once a mother's tender care.When too young to understandHe ...
SISTER.Through the house what busy joy,Just because the infant boyHas a tiny tooth to show.I have got a double row,All ...
Was it so hard a thing? I did but askA fleeting holiday, a little week.What if the jaded steer who ...
Dear Sir, Dear Madam, or Dear Friend, With ease are written at the top;When those two happy words are penned, ...
For gold could Memory be bought, What treasures would she not be worth?If from afar she could be brought, I'd ...
A FABLEOnce on a time, Love, Death, and Reputation,Three travellers, a tour together went;And, after many a long perambulation,Agreed to ...
Incorrectness in your speech Carefully avoid, my Anna;Study well the sense of each Sentence, lest in any mannerIt misrepresent the ...
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 ...
A child's a plaything for an hour; Its pretty tricks we tryFor that or for a longer space; Then tire, ...
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