THE

WORKS

OP

CHARLES LAMB.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

London:

PRINTED FOR C. AND J. OLLIER,

VERE-STREET, BOND-STREET.

1818.

390.9.360

MARCHANT, Printer, Ingram-Court, Fenchurch-Street.

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Hester .........

To Charles Lloyd, an unexpected Visitor

The Three Friends ....

To a River in which a Child was drowned...

The Old Familiar Faces .....

Helen ............

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A Vision of Repentance .........

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Dialogue between a Mother and Child ......

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Queen Oriana's. Dream.....

A Ballad, noting the Difference of Rich and Poor, in

the ways of a rich Noble's Palace and a poor

6 ? Workhouse ......

Hypochondriacus .............

A Farewel to Tobacco .......

To T. L. H. a Child ...

Ballad, from the German..

David in the Cave of Adullam ..

Salome . ............

Lines, suggested by a Picture of Two Females by Lionardo

Da Vinci........................

Lines, on the same Picture being removed to make place

for a Portrait of a Lady by Titian..............

Lines, on the celebrated Picture by Lionardo Da

Vinci, called the Virgin of the Rocks ........

On the same ....

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Sonnets.

Page.

To Miss Kelly ...................

On the Sight of Swans in Kensington-Gardens ...

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VI.............................

VII. ...................

The Family Name.........

To John Lamb, Esq. of the South-Sea-House

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Blank Verse.

Childhood ........

The Grandarne ..................

The Sabbath Bells...........

Fancy employed on Divine Subjects .........

Composed at Midnight ..........

John Woodvil, a Tragedy .......

The Witch, a Dramatic Sketch of the Seventeenth

Century ................

............. 165

CURIOUS FRAGMENTS, extracted from a common-

place-book which belonged to Robert Burton, the

famous Author of the Anatomy of Melancholy .. 171

RosaMUND GRAY, a Tale.........

187

RECOLLECTIONS OF Christ's Hospital ........ 267

DEDICATION

TO

S. T. COLERIDGE, Esq.

MY DEAR COLERIDGE, You will smile to see the slender labors of your friend designated by the title of Works ; but such was the wish of the gentlemen who have kindly undertaken the trouble of collecting them, and from their judgment could be no appeal.

It would be a kind of disloyalty to offer to