Charles Lamb
Charles Lamb
Charles Lambwas an English writer and essayist, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, which he produced with his sister, Mary Lamb...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth10 February 1775
children heart childhood
Is the world all grown up? Is childhood dead? Or is there not in the bosom of the wisest and the best some of the child's heart left, to respond to its earliest enchantments?
moving fall heart
Alas! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely tied; That stood the storm when waves were rough, Yet in a sunny hour fall off, Like ships that have gone down at sea When heaven was all tranquillity.
heart stains combat
Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.
heart peculiar veins
When thus the heart is in a vein Of tender thought, the simplest strain Can touch it with peculiar power.
heart stealing stolen
And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen, The maiden herself will steal after it soon.
heart giving poor
I give thee all,-I can no more, Though poor the off'ring be; My heart and lute are all the store That I can bring to thee.
spring heart simplicity
Cultivate simplicity or rather should I say banish elaborateness, for simplicity springs spontaneous from the heart.
heart library thee
I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.
wall heart sleep
The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul were fled. So sleeps the pride of former days, So glory's thrill is o'er; And hearts that once beat high for praise Now feel that pulse no more.
lying heart world
When true hearts lie wither'd And fond ones are flown, Oh, who would inhabit This bleak world alone?
blind favourite heard hearts people side
All people have their blind side - their superstitions; and I have heard her declare, under the rose, that hearts were her favourite suit.
pouring
Angel-duck, angel-duck, winged and silly, / Pouring a watering-pot over a lily.
books borrowers creators odd
Borrowers of books --those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
errand riddle short thy visit
Riddle of destiny, who can show / What thy short visit meant, or know / What thy errand here below?