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 (112 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 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 ...
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 ...
Written A Year After The Events (Charles Lamb Poems)
Alas! how am I chang'd! Where be the tears,The sobs, and forc'd suspensions of the breath,And all the dull desertions ...
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 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, ...
The Beasts In The Tower (Charles Lamb Poems)
Within the precincts of this yard,Each in his narrow confines barred,Dwells every beast that can be foundOn Afric or on ...
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 End Of May (Charles Lamb Poems)
Our governess is not in school, So we may talk a bit;Sit down upon this little stool, Come, little Mary, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 Spartan Boy (Charles Lamb Poems)
When I the memory repeatOf the heroic actions great,Which, in contempt of pain and death,Were done by men who drew ...
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 ...
My Birthday (Charles Lamb Poems)
A dozen years since in this house what commotion, What bustle, what stir, and what joyful ado;Every soul in the ...
The Butterfly (Charles Lamb Poems)
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, ...
The Duty Of A Brother (Charles Lamb Poems)
Why on your sister do you look, Octavius, with an eye of scorn,As scarce her presence you could brook?— Under ...
A Dramatic Fragment (Charles Lamb Poems)
"Fie upon't!All men are false, I think. The date of loveIs out, expired, its stories all grown stale,O'erpast, forgotten, like ...
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 ...
To T.L.H. (Charles Lamb Poems)
A CHILDModel of thy parent dear,Serious infant worth a fear:In thy unfaultering visage wellPicturing forth the son of Tell,When on ...
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 ...
Weeding (Charles Lamb Poems)
As busy Aurelia, 'twixt work and 'twixt play, Was labouring industriously hardTo cull the vile weeds from the flowerets away, ...