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The poetical works of Charles Lamb

A new edition
Lamb, Charles (1775-1834)
  
[dedication]

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POEMS.
  
HESTER.
  
TO CHARLES LLOYD,
  
THE THREE FRIENDS.
  
TO A RIVER IN WHICH A CHILD WAS DROWNED.
  
THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES.
  
A VISION OF REPENTANCE.
  
QUEEN ORIANA'S DREAM.
  
A BALLAD:
  
HYPOCHONDRIACUS.
  
A FAREWELL TO TOBACCO.
  
TO T. L. H.
  
LINES
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SONNETS.
 I. 
I. TO MISS KELLY.
 II. 
II. ON THE SIGHT OF SWANS IN KENSINGTON GARDEN.
 III. 
III.
 IV. 
IV.
 V. 
V.
 VI. 
VI.
 VII. 
VII.
 VIII. 
VIII. THE FAMILY NAME.
 IX. 
IX. TO JOHN LAMB, ESQ. OF THE SOUTH-SEA-HOUSE.
 X. 
X.
 XI. 
XI.
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BLANK VERSE.
  
CHILDHOOD.
  
THE GRANDAME.
  
THE SABBATH BELLS.
  
FANCY EMPLOYED ON DIVINE SUBJECTS.
  
COMPOSED AT MIDNIGHT.
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JOHN WOODVIL.
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ACT THE FIRST.
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ACT THE SECOND.
  
Scene—An Apartment in Woodvil Hall.
  
Scene—Sherwood Forest.
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ACT THE THIRD.
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ACT THE FOURTH.
  
Scene—An Apartment in Woodvil Hall.
  
Scene—The Forest.
  
Scene—Another Part of the Forest.
  
Scene.—Woodvil Hall.
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ACT THE FIFTH.
  
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Scene—An inner Apartment.
  
THE WITCH.
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ALBUM VERSES,
  
[dedication]
  
IN THE ALBUM OF A CLERGYMAN'S LADY.
  
IN THE AUTOGRAPH BOOK OF MRS. SERGEANT W---.
  
IN THE ALBUM OF EDITH S---.
  
TO DORA W---,
  
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.
  
ANGEL HELP .
  
THE CHRISTENING.
  
ON AN INFANT DYING AS SOON AS BORN.
  
THE YOUNG CATECHIST .
  
SHE IS GOING.
  
TO A YOUNG FRIEND,
  
HARMONY IN UNLIKENESS.
  
WRITTEN AT CAMBRIDGE.
  
TO A CELEBRATED FEMALE PERFORMER IN THE “BLIND BOY.”
  
WORK.
  
LEISURE.
  
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.
  
GOING OR GONE.
  
FREE THOUGHTS ON SEVERAL EMINENT COMPOSERS.
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THE WIFE'S TRIAL;
  
Scene.—A Library.
  
Scene.—Servants' Hall.
  
Scene.—Mrs. Selby's Chamber.
  
Scene.—An Apartment, contiguous to the last.
  
Scene.—The Library.
  
Scene.—Mrs. Selby's Chamber.
  
Scene.—A Garden.

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

Louisa, serious grown and mild,
I knew you once a romping child,
Obstreperous much and very wild.
Then you would clamber up my knees,
And strive with every art to tease,
When every art of yours could please.
Those things would scarce be proper now.
But they are gone, I know not how,
And woman 's written on your brow.
Time draws his finger o'er the scene;
But I cannot forget between
The Thing to me you once have been
Each sportive sally, wild escape,—
The scoff, the banter, and the jape,—
And antics of my gamesome Ape.
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