Charles Lamb

Poems (6)

• A Farewell to Tobacco

  MAY the Babylonish curse / Straight confound my stammering verse, …

• Hester

  When maidens such as Hester die / Their place ye may not well supply, …

• On an Infant dying as soon as born

  I SAW where in the shroud did lurk / A curious frame of Nature's work; …

• The Housekeeper

  The Frugal snail, with forecast of repose, / Carries his house with him where’er he goes; …

• The Old Familiar Faces

  I HAVE had playmates, I have had companions, / In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days— …

• À T. Stothard

  Artiste consommé, ton crayon immortel / À Rogers, le classique, improvise un autel, …