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The poetical works of Charles Lamb

A new edition

Lamb, Charles (1775-1834)

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IN THE ALBUM OF A CLERGYMAN'S LADY.

IN THE AUTOGRAPH BOOK OF MRS. SERGEANT W---.

IN THE ALBUM OF EDITH S---.

IN THE ALBUM OF ROTHA Q---.

IN THE ALBUM OF CATHERINE ORKNEY.

IN THE ALBUM OF LUCY BARTON.

IN THE ALBUM OF MISS ---.

IN THE ALBUM OF MRS. JANE TOWERS.

IN MY OWN ALBUM.

THE CHRISTENING.

ON AN INFANT DYING AS SOON AS BORN.

THE YOUNG CATECHIST .

TO A YOUNG FRIEND,

HARMONY IN UNLIKENESS.

WRITTEN AT CAMBRIDGE.

TO A CELEBRATED FEMALE PERFORMER IN THE “BLIND BOY.”

TO SAMUEL ROGERS, ESQ.

THE GIPSY'S MALISON.

TO THE AUTHOR OF POEMS,

TO J. S. KNOWLES, ESQ.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE “EVERY-DAY BOOK.”

TO T. STOTHARD, ESQ.

TO A FRIEND ON HIS MARRIAGE.

THE SELF-ENCHANTED.

TO LOUISA M---, WHOM I USED TO CALL “MONKEY.”

[O lift with reverent hand that tarnish'd flower]

PINDARIC ODE TO THE TREAD MILL.

FREE THOUGHTS ON SEVERAL EMINENT COMPOSERS.

THE WIFE'S TRIAL;

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HARMONY IN UNLIKENESS.

By Enfield lanes, and Winchmore's verdant hill,
Two lovely damsels cheer my lonely walk:
The fair Maria, as a vestal, still;
And Emma brown, exuberant in talk.
With soft and Lady speech the first applies
The mild correctives that to grace belong
To her redundant friend, who her defies
With jest, and mad discourse, and bursts of song.
O differing Pair, yet sweetly thus agreeing,
What music from your happy discord rises,
While your companion hearing each, and seeing,
Nor this, nor that, but both together, prizes;
This lesson teaching, which our souls may strike,
That harmonies may be in things unlike!