Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. IV. The Nineteenth Century: Wordsworth to Rossetti
Charles Lamb (17751834)Parental Recollections
[From Poetry for Children, by Charles and Mary Lamb]
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Its pretty tricks we try
For that or for a longer space;
Then tire, and lay it by.
All seasons could control;
That would have mocked the sense of pain
Out of a grieved soul.
Young climber up of knees,
When I forget thy thousand ways
Then life and all shall cease.