The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays

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Lamb, Mary, 1764-1847

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English

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PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

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English drama

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11576

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March 1, 2004

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Contents

1. 1.IV. POEMS AND PLAYS
2. 2.POEMS AND PLAYS
3. 3.INTRODUCTION
4. 4.CONTENTS TEXT NOTE PAGE PAGE — FRONTISPIECE
5. 5.DEDICATION (1818) TO S.T. COLERIDGE, ESQ.
6. 6.LAMB'S EARLIEST POEM
7. 7.POEMS IN COLERIDGE'S POEMS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS, 1796
8. 8.FROM CHARLES LLOYD'S POEMS ON THE DEATH OF PRISCILLA FARMER, 1796 — THE GRANDAME
9. 9.POEMS FROM COLERIDGE'S POEMS , 1797
10. 10.CHILDHOOD
11. 11.THE SABBATH BELLS
12. 12.FANCY EMPLOYED ON DIVINE SUBJECTS
13. 13.TO CHARLES LLOYD
14. 14.A VISION OF REPENTANCE
15. 15.SONNET
16. 16.TO THE POET COWPER
17. 17.LINES
18. 18.SONNET TO A FRIEND — TO A YOUNG LADY
19. 19.LIVING WITHOUT GOD IN THE WORLD — POEMS FROM BLANK VERSE , BY CHARLES LLOYD AND CHARLES LAMB, 1798 — TO CHARLES LLOYD
20. 20.WRITTEN ON THE DAY OF MY AUNT'S FUNERAL
21. 21.WRITTEN A YEAR AFTER THE EVENTS
22. 22.WRITTEN SOON AFTER THE PRECEDING POEM — WRITTEN ON CHRISTMAS DAY, 1797
23. 23.THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES
24. 24.COMPOSED AT MIDNIGHT
25. 25.HELEN
26. 26.BALLAD
27. 27.HYPOCHONDRIACUS — A BALLAD:
28. 28.HESTER — DIALOGUE BETWEEN A MOTHER AND CHILD
29. 29.TO T.L.H. — SALOME
30. 30.LINES
31. 31.LINES
32. 32.LINES
33. 33.ON THE SAME
34. 34.SONNETS — TO MISS KELLY
35. 35.ON THE SIGHT OF SWANS IN KENSINGTON GARDEN
36. 36.THE FAMILY NAME
37. 37.TO JOHN LAMB, ESQ.
38. 38.TO MARTIN CHARLES BURNEY, ESQ.
39. 39.ALBUM VERSES
40. 40.IN THE AUTOGRAPH BOOK OF MRS. SERGEANT W———
41. 41.IN THE ALBUM OF LUCY BARTON
42. 42.IN THE ALBUM OF MISS ——— — II
43. 43.IN THE ALBUM OF A VERY YOUNG LADY
44. 44.IN THE ALBUM OF A FRENCH TEACHER (? 1829)
45. 45.IN THE ALBUM OF MISS DAUBENY — II — III — IV
46. 46.IN THE ALBUM OF MRS. JANE TOWERS (1828)
47. 47.IN MY OWN ALBUM (1827)
48. 48.MISCELLANEOUS — ANGEL HELP[5]
49. 49.THE CHRISTENING
50. 50.ON AN INFANT DYING AS SOON AS BORN
51. 51.TO BERNARD BARTON
52. 52.THE YOUNG CATECHIST[7] — SHE IS GOING — TO A YOUNG FRIEND
53. 53.TO THE SAME — SONNETS — HARMONY IN UNLIKENESS
54. 54.WRITTEN AT CAMBRIDGE
55. 55.TO A CELEBRATED FEMALE PERFORMER IN THE "BLIND BOY"
56. 56.WORK
57. 57.LEISURE
58. 58.TO SAMUEL ROGERS, ESQ.
59. 59.THE GIPSY'S MALISON
60. 60.COMMENDATORY VERSES
61. 61.TO R.[J.]S. KNOWLES, ESQ.
62. 62.TO THE EDITOR OF THE "EVERY-DAY BOOK" — ACROSTICS — TO CAROLINE MARIA APPLEBEE
63. 63.TO CECILIA CATHERINE LAWTON
64. 64.ACROSTIC,
65. 65.ANOTHER, — TRANSLATIONS — II — III — IV — V. — VI — VII — VIII — IX
66. 66.PINDARIC ODE TO THE TREAD MILL — II — III — IV — V — VI — VII
67. 67.EPICEDIUM — I — II — III — IV — V — VI — VII — VIII — IX
68. 68.NEW POEMS IN LAMB'S POETICAL WORKS, 1836 — IN THE ALBUM OF EDITH S[OUTHEY] (1833)
69. 69.TO DORA W[ORDSWORTH],
70. 70.IN THE ALBUM OF ROTHA Q[UILLINAN]
71. 71.IN THE ALBUM OF CATHERINE ORKNEY
72. 72.TO T. STOTHARD, ESQ.
73. 73.TO A FRIEND ON HIS MARRIAGE
74. 74.THE SELF-ENCHANTED
75. 75.TO LOUISA M[ARTIN], WHOM I USED TO CALL "MONKEY"
76. 76.CHEAP GIFTS: A SONNET
77. 77.FREE THOUGHTS ON SEVERAL EMINENT COMPOSERS — MISCELLANEOUS POEMS, NOT COLLECTED BY LAMB — DRAMATIC FRAGMENT
78. 78.DICK STRYPE; OR, THE FORCE OF HABIT
79. 79.TWO EPITAPHS ON A YOUNG LADY WHO LIVED NEGLECTED AND DIED OBSCURE — II
80. 80.THE APE
81. 81.CARLAGNULUS.
82. 82.SONNET
83. 83.TO MY FRIEND THE INDICATOR
84. 84.ON SEEING MRS. K—— B——, AGED UPWARDS OF EIGHTY, NURSE AN INFANT
85. 85.TO EMMA, LEARNING LATIN, AND DESPONDING
86. 86.LINES
87. 87.LINES — TO C. ADERS, ESQ.
88. 88.HERCULES PACIFICATUS
89. 89.THE PARTING SPEECH OF THE CELESTIAL MESSENGER TO THE POET
90. 90.EXISTENCE, CONSIDERED IN ITSELF, NO BLESSING
91. 91.TO SAMUEL ROGERS, ESQ.
92. 92.TO CLARA N[OVELLO]
93. 93.THE SISTERS
94. 94.LOVE WILL COME — II
95. 95.TO MARGARET W—— — ADDITIONAL ALBUM VERSES AND ACROSTICS — WHAT IS AN ALBUM?
96. 96.THE FIRST LEAF OF SPRING — TO MRS. F[IELD]
97. 97.TO M[ARY] L[AETITIA] F[IELD]
98. 98.TO ESTHER FIELD
99. 99.[TO MRS. WILLIAMS]
100. 100.TO THE BOOK
101. 101.TO S[OPHIA] F[REND]
102. 102.TO R[OTHA] Q[UILLINAN]
103. 103.TO S[ARAH] L[OCKE]
104. 104.TO M[ARY] L[OCKE]
105. 105.AN ACROSTIC AGAINST ACROSTICS
106. 106.ON BEING ASKED TO WRITE IN MISS WESTWOOD'S ALBUM
107. 107.[IN MISS WESTWOOD'S ALBUM]
108. 108.UN SOLITAIRE
109. 109.TO S[ARAH] T[HOMAS]
110. 110.TO MRS. SARAH ROBINSON
111. 111.TO SARAH [APSEY]
112. 112.TO JOSEPH VALE ASBURY — TO D[OROTHY] A[SBURY]
113. 113.TO LOUISA MORGAN
114. 114.TO SARAH JAMES OF BEGUILDY
115. 115.TO EMMA BUTTON
116. 116.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
117. 117.ON A LATE EMPIRIC OF "BALMY" MEMORY — EPIGRAMS — I — II — THE TRIUMPH OF THE WHALE
118. 118.SONNET
119. 119.THE GODLIKE
120. 120.THE THREE GRAVES
121. 121.SONNET TO MATHEW WOOD, ESQ.
122. 122.ON A PROJECTED JOURNEY — SONG FOR THE C[ORONATIO]N
123. 123.THE UNBELOVED
124. 124.ON THE ARRIVAL IN ENGLAND OF LORD BYRON'S REMAINS
125. 125.LINES
126. 126.FOR THE "TABLE BOOK"
127. 127.THE ROYAL WONDERS
128. 128."BREVIS ESSE LABORO"
129. 129.SUUM CUIQUE
130. 130.[ON THE LITERARY GAZETTE ]
131. 131.ON THE FAST-DAY
132. 132.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
133. 133.FROM THE LATIN
134. 134.SATAN IN SEARCH OF A WIFE
135. 135.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
136. 136.PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES — EPILOGUE TO GODWIN'S TRAGEDY OF "ANTONIO"
137. 137.PROLOGUE TO GODWIN'S TRAGEDY OF "FAULKENER"
138. 138.EPILOGUE TO HENRY SIDDONS' FARCE, "TIME'S A TELL-TALE"
139. 139.PROLOGUE TO COLERIDGE'S TRAGEDY OF "REMORSE"
140. 140.EPILOGUE TO KENNEY'S FARCE, "DEBTOR AND CREDITOR"
141. 141.EPILOGUE TO AN AMATEUR PERFORMANCE OF "RICHARD II."
142. 142.PROLOGUE TO SHERIDAN KNOWLES' COMEDY, "THE WIFE"
143. 143.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.
144. 144.ACT THE SECOND — SCENE.— An Apartment in Woodvil Hall. — "MARGARET."
145. 145.SCENE.— Sherwood Forest . — ACT THE THIRD — SCENE.— An Apartment of State in Woodvil Hall—Cavaliers drinking.
146. 146.ACT THE FOURTH — SCENE.— An Apartment in Woodvil Hall .
147. 147.SCENE.— The Forest . — SIR WALTER. SIMON. LOVEL. GRAY.
148. 148.SCENE.— Another Part of the Forest . — SCENE.— Woodvil Hall . — SANDFORD. MARGARET.
149. 149.ACT THE FIFTH
150. 150.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.
151. 151.SCENE.— In the Street .
152. 152.SCENE.— An Apartment in MELESINDA'S House .
153. 153.SCENE.— A Room in the Inn. (Two Waiters disputing. )
154. 154.ACT II — SCENE.— A handsome Apartment well lighted, Tea, Cards, &c.—A large party of Ladies and Gentlemen, among them MELESINDA.
155. 155.SCENE.— The Street . BELVIL and another Gentleman .
156. 156.SCENE.—MR. H——'S Apartment .
157. 157.SCENE.— Melesinda's Apartment . — THE PAWNBROKER'S DAUGHTER — CHARACTERS
158. 158.ACT I. — SCENE I.— An Apartment at Flint's house. — FLINT. WILLIAM.
159. 159.SCENE II.— A Butcher's Shop. — CUTLET. BEN.
160. 160.SCENE III.—A Street.
161. 161.ACT II — SCENE.—At Flint's. — FLINT. WILLIAM.
162. 162.SCENE.— The Apartment of Miss Flyn. — MISS FLYN. BETTY.
163. 163.SCENE.— Police-Office. — THE WIFE'S TRIAL; OR, THE INTRUDING WIDOW — A DRAMATIC POEM — CHARACTERS — SCENE— A Library . — MR. SELBY, KATHERINE.
164. 164.SCENE.—Servants' Hall. — SCENE.— Mrs. Selby's Chamber.
165. 165.SCENE.— An Apartment, contiguous to the last .
166. 166.SCENE.— The Library . — MR. SELBY. MRS. FRAMPTON.
167. 167.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
168. 168.INDEX OF FIRST LINES

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