William Makepeace Thackeray
Best-known poems
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Sorrows of Werther
Werther had a love for Charlotte
Such as words could never utter;
Would you know how first he met her? … -
Fairy Days
Beside the old hall-fire—upon my nurse’s knee,
Of happy fairy days—what tales were told to me!
I thought the world was once—all peopled with princesses, …
All poems (12)
- At the Church-GateAlthough I enter not,
- Fairy DaysBeside the old hall-fire—upon my nurse’s knee,
- Little BilleeThere were three sailors of Bristol City
- Peg of LimavaddyRiding from Coleraine
- Sorrows of WertherWerther had a love for Charlotte
- Sorrows of WertherWerther had a love for Charlotte
- The Age of WisdomHo! pretty page, with the dimpled chin,
- The Ballad of BouillabaisseA Street there is in Paris famous,
- The Cane-Bottomed ChairIn tattered old slippers that toast at the bars,
- The End of the PlayThe Play is done,—the curtain drops,
- The GarretWith pensive eyes the little room I view,
- The Mahogany-TreeChristmas is here;