The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 / Poems and Plays
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Chapters (367)
- FRONTISPIECE
- DEDICATION (1818) TO S.T. COLERIDGE, ESQ.
- LAMB'S EARLIEST POEM
- POEMS IN COLERIDGE'S POEMS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS, 1796
- FROM CHARLES LLOYD'S POEMS ON THE DEATH OF PRISCILLA FARMER, 1796
- THE GRANDAME
- POEMS FROM COLERIDGE'S POEMS, 1797
- CHILDHOOD
- THE SABBATH BELLS
- FANCY EMPLOYED ON DIVINE SUBJECTS
- TO CHARLES LLOYD
- A VISION OF REPENTANCE
- POEMS WRITTEN IN THE YEARS 1795-98, AND NOT REPRINTED BY LAMB SONNET
- TO THE POET COWPER
- LINES
- SONNET TO A FRIEND
- TO A YOUNG LADY
- LIVING WITHOUT GOD IN THE WORLD
- POEMS FROM BLANK VERSE, BY CHARLES LLOYD AND CHARLES LAMB, 1798
- TO CHARLES LLOYD
- WRITTEN ON THE DAY OF MY AUNT'S FUNERAL
- WRITTEN A YEAR AFTER THE EVENTS
- WRITTEN SOON AFTER THE PRECEDING POEM
- WRITTEN ON CHRISTMAS DAY, 1797
- THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES
- COMPOSED AT MIDNIGHT
- HELEN
- BALLAD
- HYPOCHONDRIACUS
- A BALLAD:
- POEMS IN CHARLES LAMB'S WORKS 1818, NOT PREVIOUSLY PRINTED IN THE PRESENT VOLUME; TOGETHER WITH REFERENCES TO THOSE POEMS THAT HAVE BEEN PREVIOUSLY PRINTED HESTER
- DIALOGUE BETWEEN A MOTHER AND CHILD
- TO T.L.H.
- SALOME
- LINES
- LINES
- LINES
- ON THE SAME
- SONNETS
- TO MISS KELLY
- ON THE SIGHT OF SWANS IN KENSINGTON GARDEN
- THE FAMILY NAME
- TO JOHN LAMB, ESQ.
- TO MARTIN CHARLES BURNEY, ESQ.
- ALBUM VERSES
- IN THE AUTOGRAPH BOOK OF MRS. SERGEANT W———
- IN THE ALBUM OF LUCY BARTON
- IN THE ALBUM OF MISS ———
- II
- IN THE ALBUM OF A VERY YOUNG LADY
- IN THE ALBUM OF A FRENCH TEACHER (? 1829)
- IN THE ALBUM OF MISS DAUBENY
- II
- III
- IV
- IN THE ALBUM OF MRS. JANE TOWERS (1828)
- IN MY OWN ALBUM (1827)
- MISCELLANEOUS
- ANGEL HELP[5]
- THE CHRISTENING
- ON AN INFANT DYING AS SOON AS BORN
- TO BERNARD BARTON
- THE YOUNG CATECHIST[7]
- SHE IS GOING
- TO A YOUNG FRIEND
- TO THE SAME
- SONNETS 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
- COMMENDATORY VERSES
- TO R.[J.]S. KNOWLES, ESQ.
- TO THE EDITOR OF THE "EVERY-DAY BOOK"
- ACROSTICS
- TO CAROLINE MARIA APPLEBEE
- TO CECILIA CATHERINE LAWTON
- ACROSTIC,
- ANOTHER,
- TRANSLATIONS
- II
- III
- IV
- V.
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- PINDARIC ODE TO THE TREAD MILL
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- EPICEDIUM
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- NEW POEMS IN LAMB'S POETICAL WORKS, 1836
- IN THE ALBUM OF EDITH S[OUTHEY] (1833)
- TO DORA W[ORDSWORTH],
- IN THE ALBUM OF ROTHA Q[UILLINAN]
- IN THE ALBUM OF CATHERINE ORKNEY
- TO T. STOTHARD, ESQ.
- TO A FRIEND ON HIS MARRIAGE
- THE SELF-ENCHANTED
- TO LOUISA M[ARTIN], WHOM I USED TO CALL "MONKEY"
- CHEAP GIFTS: A SONNET
- FREE THOUGHTS ON SEVERAL EMINENT COMPOSERS
- MISCELLANEOUS POEMS, NOT COLLECTED BY LAMB
- DRAMATIC FRAGMENT
- DICK STRYPE; OR, THE FORCE OF HABIT
- TWO EPITAPHS ON A YOUNG LADY WHO LIVED NEGLECTED AND DIED OBSCURE
- II
- THE APE
- CARLAGNULUS.
- SONNET
- TO MY FRIEND THE INDICATOR
- ON SEEING MRS. K—— B——, AGED UPWARDS OF EIGHTY, NURSE AN INFANT
- TO EMMA, LEARNING LATIN, AND DESPONDING
- LINES
- LINES
- TO C. ADERS, ESQ.
- HERCULES PACIFICATUS
- THE PARTING SPEECH OF THE CELESTIAL MESSENGER TO THE POET
- EXISTENCE, CONSIDERED IN ITSELF, NO BLESSING
- TO SAMUEL ROGERS, ESQ.
- TO CLARA N[OVELLO]
- THE SISTERS
- LOVE WILL COME
- II
- TO MARGARET W——
- ADDITIONAL ALBUM VERSES AND ACROSTICS
- WHAT IS AN ALBUM?
- THE FIRST LEAF OF SPRING
- TO MRS. F[IELD]
- TO M[ARY] L[AETITIA] F[IELD]
- TO ESTHER FIELD
- [TO MRS. WILLIAMS]
- TO THE BOOK
- TO S[OPHIA] F[REND]
- TO R[OTHA] Q[UILLINAN]
- TO S[ARAH] L[OCKE]
- TO M[ARY] L[OCKE]
- AN ACROSTIC AGAINST ACROSTICS
- ON BEING ASKED TO WRITE IN MISS WESTWOOD'S ALBUM
- [IN MISS WESTWOOD'S ALBUM]
- UN SOLITAIRE
- TO S[ARAH] T[HOMAS]
- TO MRS. SARAH ROBINSON
- TO SARAH [APSEY]
- TO JOSEPH VALE ASBURY
- TO D[OROTHY] A[SBURY]
- TO LOUISA MORGAN
- TO SARAH JAMES OF BEGUILDY
- TO EMMA BUTTON
- WRITTEN UPON THE COVER OF A BLOTTING BOOK
- POLITICAL AND OTHER EPIGRAMS TO SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH
- TWELFTH NIGHT
- MESSRS. C[ANNIN]G AND F[RER]E
- COUNT RUMFORD
- ON A LATE EMPIRIC OF "BALMY" MEMORY
- EPIGRAMS
- I
- II
- THE TRIUMPH OF THE WHALE
- SONNET
- THE GODLIKE
- THE THREE GRAVES
- SONNET TO MATHEW WOOD, ESQ.
- ON A PROJECTED JOURNEY
- SONG FOR THE C[ORONATIO]N
- THE UNBELOVED
- ON THE ARRIVAL IN ENGLAND OF LORD BYRON'S REMAINS
- LINES
- FOR THE "TABLE BOOK"
- THE ROYAL WONDERS
- "BREVIS ESSE LABORO"
- SUUM CUIQUE
- [ON THE LITERARY GAZETTE]
- ON THE FAST-DAY
- NONSENSE VERSES
- ON WAWD
- SIX EPITAPHS ON ENSIGN PEACOCK
- MARMOR LOQUITUR
- ON TIMOTHY WAGSTAFF
- ON CAPTAIN STURMS
- ON MARGARET DIX
- ON ONESIMUS DRAKE
- ON MATTHEW DAY
- TIME AND ETERNITY
- FROM THE LATIN
- SATAN IN SEARCH OF A WIFE
- PART THE FIRST
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- X
- XI
- XII
- XIII
- XIV
- XV
- XVI
- XVII
- XVIII
- XIX
- XX
- XXI
- XXII
- XXIII
- XXIV
- XXV
- XXVI
- XXVII
- XXVIII
- XXIX
- XXX
- THE SECOND PART
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- X
- XI
- XII
- XIII
- XIV
- XV
- XVI
- XVII
- XVIII
- XIX
- XX
- XXI
- XXII
- XXIII
- XXIV
- XXV
- XXVI
- XXVII
- XXVIII
- XXIX
- XXX
- PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES
- EPILOGUE TO GODWIN'S TRAGEDY OF "ANTONIO"
- PROLOGUE TO GODWIN'S TRAGEDY OF "FAULKENER"
- EPILOGUE TO HENRY SIDDONS' FARCE, "TIME'S A TELL-TALE"
- PROLOGUE TO COLERIDGE'S TRAGEDY OF "REMORSE"
- EPILOGUE TO KENNEY'S FARCE, "DEBTOR AND CREDITOR"
- EPILOGUE TO AN AMATEUR PERFORMANCE OF "RICHARD II."
- PROLOGUE TO SHERIDAN KNOWLES' COMEDY, "THE WIFE"
- EPILOGUE TO SHERIDAN KNOWLES' COMEDY, "THE WIFE"
- JOHN WOODVIL
- CHARACTERS
- SCENE—for the most part at Sir Walter's mansion in DEVONSHIRE; at other times in the forest of SHERWOOD.
- ACT THE FIRST SCENE.—A Servants' Apartment in Woodvil Hall.
- ACT THE SECOND
- SCENE.—An Apartment in Woodvil Hall.
- "MARGARET."
- SCENE.—Sherwood Forest.
- ACT THE THIRD
- SCENE.—An Apartment of State in Woodvil Hall—Cavaliers drinking.
- ACT THE FOURTH
- SCENE.—An Apartment in Woodvil Hall.
- SCENE.—The Forest.
- SIR WALTER. SIMON. LOVEL. GRAY.
- SCENE.—Another Part of the Forest.
- SCENE.—Woodvil Hall.
- SANDFORD. MARGARET.
- ACT THE FIFTH
- SCENE.—An inner Apartment.
- THE WITCH
- CHARACTERS
- CHARACTERS
- SCENE.—Bath
- PROLOGUE
- MR. H—— A FARCE IN TWO ACTS
- ACT I SCENE.—_A Public Room in an Inn—Landlord, Waiters, Gentlemen, &c.
- SCENE.—In the Street.
- SCENE.—An Apartment in MELESINDA'S House.
- SCENE.—A Room in the Inn. (Two Waiters disputing.)
- ACT II
- SCENE.—A handsome Apartment well lighted, Tea, Cards, &c.—A large party of Ladies and Gentlemen, among them MELESINDA.
- SCENE.—The Street. BELVIL and another Gentleman.
- SCENE.—MR. H——'S Apartment.
- SCENE.—Melesinda's Apartment.
- THE PAWNBROKER'S DAUGHTER
- CHARACTERS
- ACT I.
- SCENE I.—An Apartment at Flint's house. FLINT. WILLIAM.
- SCENE II.—A Butcher's Shop.
- CUTLET. BEN.
- SCENE III.—A Street.
- ACT II
- SCENE.—At Flint's. FLINT. WILLIAM.
- SCENE.—The Apartment of Miss Flyn.
- MISS FLYN. BETTY.
- SCENE.—Police-Office.
- THE WIFE'S TRIAL; OR, THE INTRUDING WIDOW
- A DRAMATIC POEM
- CHARACTERS
- SCENE—A Library. MR. SELBY, KATHERINE.
- SCENE.—Servants' Hall.
- SCENE.—Mrs. Selby's Chamber.
- SCENE.—An Apartment, contiguous to the last.
- SCENE.—The Library.
- MR. SELBY. MRS. FRAMPTON.
- SCENE.-Mrs. Selby's Chamber.
- MRS. FRAMPTON. KATHERINE.
- SCENE.—A Garden.
- MR. SELBY. MRS. FRAMPTON.
- NOTES
- POEMS
- SONNETS
- ALBUM VERSES
- MISCELLANEOUS
- SONNETS
- COMMENDATORY VERSES
- TRANSLATIONS
- UNCOLLECTED PIECES
- ALBUM VERSES AND ACROSTICS
- MR. P[IT]T
- END OF VOL. IV. INDEX
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- V
- W
- Y
- INDEX OF FIRST LINES
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