Written On The Day Of My Aunt’s Funeral (Charles Lamb Poems)
Thou too art dead, ———! very kindHast thou been to me in my childish days,Thou best good creature. I have ...
Charles Lamb Poems (112 Poems)
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 ...
Discontent And Quarrelling (Charles Lamb Poems)
JANE.Miss Lydia every day is drestBetter than I am in my best White cambric-muslin frock.I wish I had one made ...
The Rainbow (Charles Lamb Poems)
After the tempest in the skyHow sweet yon rainbow to the eye!Come, my Matilda, now while someFew drops of rain ...
The First Of April (Charles Lamb Poems)
Tell me what is the reason you hang down your head? From your blushes I plainly discernYou have done something ...
The Coffee Slips (Charles Lamb Poems)
Whene'er I fragrant coffee drink,I on the generous Frenchman think,Whose noble perseverance boreThe tree to Martinico's shore.While yet her colony ...
Written Soon After The Preceding Poem (Charles Lamb Poems)
Thou should'st have longer liv'd, and to the graveHave peacefully gone down in full old age!Thy children would have tended ...
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 ...
Repentance And Reconciliati (Charles Lamb Poems)
JANE.Mamma is displeased and looks very grave, And I own, brother, I was to blameJust now when I told her ...
The Broken Doll (Charles Lamb Poems)
An infant is a selfish sprite;But what of that? the sweet delightWhich from participation springs,Is quite unknown to these young ...
The Journey From School And To School (Charles Lamb Poems)
O what a joyous joyous day Is that on which we comeAt the recess from school away, Each lad to ...
The Great Grandfather (Charles Lamb Poems)
My father's grandfather lives still, His age is fourscore years and ten;He looks a monument of time, The agedest of ...
The Lame Brother (Charles Lamb Poems)
My parents sleep both in one grave; My only friend's a brother.The dearest things upon the earth We are to ...
Time Spent In Dress (Charles Lamb Poems)
In many a lecture, many a book, You all have heard, you all have read,That time is precious. Of its ...
Cleanliness (Charles Lamb Poems)
Come, my little Robert, near—Fie! what filthy hands are here—Who that e'er could understandThe rare structure of a hand,With its ...
Written Christmas Day 1797 (Charles Lamb Poems)
I am a widow'd thing, now thou art gone!Now thou art gone, my own familiar friend,Companion, sister, help-mate, counsellor!Alas! that ...
Queen Oriana’s Dream (Charles Lamb Poems)
On a bank with roses shaded,Whose sweet scent the violets aided,Violets whose breath aloneYields but feeble smell or none,(Sweeter bed ...
Hester (Charles Lamb Poems)
WHEN maidens such as Hester dieTheir place ye may not well supply,Though ye among a thousand try With ...
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 Beggar-Man (Charles Lamb Poems)
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 ...
The First Leaf Of Spring (Charles Lamb Poems)
WRITTEN ON THE FIRST LEAF OF A LADY'S ALBUM.Thou fragile, filmy, gossamery thing,First leaf of spring!At every lightest breath that ...
The First Tooth (Charles Lamb Poems)
SISTER.Through the house what busy joy,Just because the infant boyHas a tiny tooth to show.I have got a double row,All ...
The Christening (Charles Lamb Poems)
Arrayed—a half angelic sight—In nests of pure baptismal white,The mother to the font doth bringThe little, helpless, nameless thing,With hushes ...
The Ride (Charles Lamb Poems)
Lately an equipage I overtook,And helped to lift it o'er a narrow brook.No horse it had except one boy, who ...
Suffer Little Children, And Forbid Them Not, To Come Unto Me (Charles Lamb Poems)
To Jesus our Saviour some parents presented Their children—what fears and what hopes they must feel!When this the disciples would ...
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 ...
Lines Addressed From London, To Sara And S.T.C. At Bristol, In The Summer Of 1796 (Charles Lamb Poems)
Was it so hard a thing? I did but askA fleeting holiday, a little week.What if the jaded steer who ...
Breakfast (Charles Lamb Poems)
A dinner party, coffee, tea,Sandwich, or supper, all may beIn their way pleasant. But to meNot one of these deserves ...