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Victorian

Frederick Locker-Lampson

1821–1895

Frederick Locker-Lampson (1821–1895), known as Frederick Locker for most of his writing life, was an English poet. Born at Greenwich Hospital, he worked as a clerk in the Admiralty and published London Lyrics in 1857, a slim volume of polished society verse that he went on revising and enlarging through many later editions.

His light, graceful, gently ironical manner is often set beside that of Praed. The poems here come from the 1904 Methuen edition of London Lyrics (the early pieces of 1857) and from a selection of his works printed by Edward Moxon in 1865.

Poems (82)

  1. The Castle in the Air
  2. The Cradle
  3. O Tempora Mutantur!
  4. Piccadilly
  5. The Old Clerk
  6. The Garter
  7. The Pilgrims of Pall Mall
  8. The Russet Pitcher
  9. The Enchanted Rose
  10. Circumstance
  11. A Wish
  12. My Life Is a--
  13. Vanity Fair
  14. Bramble-Rise
  15. Old Letters
  16. Susannah
  17. My Firstborn
  18. The Widow's Mite
  19. St George's, Hanover Square
  20. A Sketch in Seven Dials
  21. Miss Edith
  22. A Glimpse of Gretna Green, in the Distance
  23. The Four Seasons
  24. Enigma (He met her with her milking-cans)
  25. Enigma (Toll, toll the bell)
  26. To the Printer's Devil
  27. To C. C. L.
  28. The Jester's Moral
  29. On an Old Muff
  30. A Human Skull
  31. To My Grandmother
  32. Reply to a Letter Enclosing a Lock of Hair
  33. The Old Oak-Tree at Hatfield Broadoak
  34. An Invitation to Rome: The Invitation
  35. An Invitation to Rome: The Reply
  36. My Neighbour Rose
  37. Geraldine
  38. O Domine Deus
  39. The Housemaid
  40. The Old Government Clerk
  41. The Jester's Plea
  42. The Old Cradle
  43. To My Mistress
  44. To My Mistress's Boots
  45. The Rose and the Ring
  46. To My Old Friend Postumus
  47. The Fairy Rose
  48. 1863
  49. Geraldine Green: I. The Serenade
  50. Mrs. Smith
  51. The Skeleton in the Cupboard
  52. The Victoria Cross
  53. Sorrento
  54. Janet
  55. Beranger
  56. The Bear Pit
  57. Glycere
  58. Implora Pace
  59. The Legende of Sir Gyles Gyles
  60. My First-Born
  61. Susannah: I. The Elder Trees
  62. Susannah: II. A Kind Providence
  63. The Crossing-Sweeper
  64. A Song That Was Never Sung
  65. Mr. Placid's Flirtation
  66. To Parents and Guardians
  67. Beggars
  68. The Angora Cat
  69. On a Portrait of Dr. Laurence Sterne, by Sir Joshua Reynolds
  70. Little Pitcher
  71. Unfortunate Miss Bailey
  72. Advice to a Poet
  73. A Garden Lyric
  74. The Cuckoo
  75. Gertrude's Necklace
  76. My only Love is always near
  77. At Her Window
  78. Love, Time, and Death
  79. A Terrible Infant
  80. St. James's Street
  81. A Nice Correspondent
  82. A Rhyme of One

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