THE

WORKS

OF

CHARLES LAMB.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

London:

PRINTED FOR C. AND J. OLLIER, ,

VERE-STREET, BOND-STREET.

1818.

ر . و لا

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

CONTENTS.

Poems.

[T hose in Italics are by the Author's Sister.]

Page.

Hester

1

To Charles Lloyd, an unexpected Visitor

3

The Three Friends

5

To a River in which a Child was drowned.

14

The Old Familiar Faces

15

Helen

17

A Vision of Repentance

19

Dialogue between a Mother and Child

23

Queen Oriana's. Dream......

25

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

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

Workhouse

27

Hypochondriacus

30

A Farewel to Tobacco

32

To T. L. H. a Child

39

Ballad, from the German..

42

David in the Cave of Adullam

43

Salome

45

Lines, suggested by a Picture of Two Females by Lionardo

Da Vinci...

48

Lines, on the same Picture being removed to make place

for a Portrait of a Lady by Titian.

50

Lines, on the celebrated Picture by Lionardo Da

Vinci, called the Virgin of the Rocks

51

On the same

53

....

Sonnets.

To Miss Kelly

On the Sight of Swans in Kensington-Gardens

III.....

IV.

V.

VI.

VII.

The Family Name...

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

X.
XI..

Page.

57

59

60

61

62

63

64

65

66

67
68

John Woodvil, a Tragedy

79

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