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Poetry for Children

By Charles and Mary Lamb: To which are added Prince Dorus and some uncollected poems by Charles Lamb: Edited, prefaced and annotated by Richard Herne Shepherd

Lamb, Charles (1775-1834)

POETRY FOR CHILDREN.

MISCELLANEOUS POEMS,

ON BEING ASKED TO WRITE IN MISS WESTWOOD'S ALBUM.

LINES ADDRESSED TO LIEUT. R. W. H. HARDY, R.N.,

THE FIRST LEAF OF SPRING.

THE APE.

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PROLOGUE TO FAULKENER:

TO THE POET COWPER, ON HIS RECOVERY FROM AN INDISPOSITION.

LINES ADDRESSED FROM LONDON, TO SARA AND S. T. C. AT BRISTOL,

SONNET TO A FRIEND.

SONNET.

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A Negro flat—a Pagod squat,
Cast in a Chinese mould—
And then it was a Cherub's face
Made of the beaten gold!