Poetry Codex

Romantic

Charles Lamb

1775–1834

Charles Lamb was an English essayist and critic, famous for the Essays of Elia, and a close friend of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He also wrote a small body of verse.

Palgrave includes several of his short poems, among them "The Old Familiar Faces".

Poems (165)

  1. The Old Familiar Faces
  2. Hester
  3. On an Infant Dying as Soon as Born
  4. Mille Viae Mortis
  5. As when a child on some long winter's night
  6. Was it some sweet device of Faery
  7. Methinks how dainty sweet it were, reclin'd
  8. O! I could laugh to hear the midnight wind
  9. The Grandame
  10. When last I roved these winding wood-walks green
  11. A timid grace sits trembling in her eye
  12. If from my lips some angry accents fell
  13. We were two pretty babes, the youngest she
  14. Childhood
  15. The Sabbath Bells
  16. Fancy Employed on Divine Subjects
  17. The Tomb of Douglas
  18. To Charles Lloyd
  19. A Vision of Repentance
  20. The Lord of Life shakes off his drowsihed
  21. To the Poet Cowper
  22. Lines Addressed to Sara and S.T.C.
  23. Sonnet to a Friend
  24. To a Young Lady
  25. Living Without God in the World
  26. To Charles Lloyd
  27. Written on the Day of My Aunt's Funeral
  28. Written a Year After the Events
  29. Written Soon After the Preceding Poem
  30. Written on Christmas Day, 1797
  31. Composed at Midnight
  32. Ballad. From the German
  33. Hypochondriacus
  34. A Ballad Noting the Difference of Rich and Poor
  35. A Farewell to Tobacco
  36. To T.L.H.
  37. Lines on the Celebrated Picture by Lionardo da Vinci, called "The Virgin of the Rocks"
  38. To Miss Kelly
  39. On the Sight of Swans in Kensington Garden
  40. The Family Name
  41. To John Lamb, Esq.
  42. To Martin Charles Burney, Esq.
  43. In the Album of a Clergyman's Lady
  44. In the Autograph Book of Mrs. Sergeant W------
  45. In the Album of Lucy Barton
  46. In the Album of Miss ------
  47. In the Album of a Very Young Lady
  48. In the Album of a French Teacher
  49. In the Album of Miss Daubeny
  50. In the Album of Mrs. Jane Towers
  51. In My Own Album
  52. Angel Help
  53. The Christening
  54. To Bernard Barton
  55. The Young Catechist
  56. She Is Going
  57. To a Young Friend
  58. To the Same
  59. Harmony in Unlikeness
  60. Written at Cambridge
  61. To a Celebrated Female Performer in the "Blind Boy"
  62. Work
  63. Leisure
  64. To Samuel Rogers, Esq.
  65. The Gipsy's Malison
  66. To the Author of Poems Published under the Name of Barry Cornwall
  67. To R.S. Knowles, Esq.
  68. To the Editor of the "Every-Day Book"
  69. To Caroline Maria Applebee
  70. To Cecilia Catherine Lawton
  71. Acrostic, to a Lady who Desired Me to Write Her Epitaph
  72. Another, to Her Youngest Daughter
  73. On a Sepulchral Statue of an Infant Sleeping
  74. The Rival Bells
  75. Epitaph on a Dog
  76. The Ballad Singers
  77. To David Cook
  78. On a Deaf and Dumb Artist
  79. Newton's Principia
  80. The House-keeper
  81. The Female Orators
  82. Pindaric Ode to the Tread Mill
  83. Going or Gone
  84. In the Album of Edith S[outhey]
  85. To Dora W[ordsworth]
  86. In the Album of Rotha Q[uillinan]
  87. In the Album of Catherine Orkney
  88. To T. Stothard, Esq.
  89. To a Friend on His Marriage
  90. The Self-Enchanted
  91. To Louisa M[artin], Whom I Used to Call "Monkey"
  92. Cheap Gifts: a Sonnet
  93. Free Thoughts on Several Eminent Composers
  94. Dick Strype; or, The Force of Habit
  95. Two Epitaphs on a Young Lady Who Lived Neglected and Died Obscure
  96. The Ape
  97. In tabulam eximii pictoris B. Haydoni
  98. Translation of Same
  99. Sonnet to Miss Burney
  100. To My Friend the Indicator
  101. On Seeing Mrs. K---- B----, Aged Upwards of Eighty, Nurse an Infant
  102. Lines Addressed to Lieut. R.W.H. Hardy, R.N.
  103. Lines for a Monument
  104. To C. Aders, Esq.
  105. Hercules Pacificatus
  106. The Parting Speech of the Celestial Messenger to the Poet
  107. Existence, Considered in Itself, no Blessing
  108. To Samuel Rogers, Esq.
  109. To Clara N[ovello]
  110. The Sisters
  111. Love Will Come
  112. To Margaret W----
  113. What Is an Album?
  114. The First Leaf of Spring
  115. To Mrs. F[ield]
  116. To M[ary] L[aetitia] F[ield]
  117. To Esther Field
  118. To Mrs. Williams
  119. To the Book
  120. To S[ophia] F[rend]
  121. To R[otha] Q[uillinan]
  122. To S[arah] L[ocke]
  123. To M[ary] L[ocke]
  124. An Acrostic Against Acrostics
  125. On Being Asked to Write in Miss Westwood's Album
  126. Un Solitaire. To Sarah Lachlan
  127. To S[arah] T[homas]
  128. To Mrs. Sarah Robinson
  129. To Sarah [Apsey]
  130. To Joseph Vale Asbury
  131. To D[orothy] A[sbury]
  132. To Louisa Morgan
  133. To Sarah James of Beguildy
  134. To Emma Button
  135. Written upon the Cover of a Blotting Book
  136. To Sir James Mackintosh
  137. Mr. A[ddington]
  138. Messrs. C[anning] and F[rere]
  139. Count Rumford
  140. On a Late Empiric of "Balmy" Memory
  141. Princeps his rent from tinneries draws
  142. Ye Politicians, tell me, pray
  143. The Triumph of the Whale
  144. Sonnet. St. Crispin to Mr. Gifford
  145. The Godlike
  146. The Three Graves
  147. Sonnet to Mathew Wood, Esq.
  148. On a Projected Journey
  149. Song for the C[oronatio]n
  150. The Unbeloved
  151. On the Arrival in England of Lord Byron's Remains
  152. Lines Suggested by a Sight of Waltham Cross
  153. For the "Table Book"
  154. The Royal Wonders
  155. "Brevis Esse Laboro"
  156. Suum Cuique
  157. On the Literary Gazette
  158. On the Fast-Day
  159. Nonsense Verses
  160. On Wawd
  161. Six Epitaphs on Ensign Peacock
  162. Time and Eternity
  163. From the Latin
  164. Satan in Search of a Wife
  165. Anger

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