"He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society."

Captain Starkey.

"Neat, not gaudy."

Letter to Wordsworth, 1806.

"Martin, if dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold!"

Lamb's Suppers.

"Returning to town in the stage-coach, which was filled with Mr. Gilman's guests, we stopped for a minute or two at Kentish Town. A woman asked the coachman, "Are you full inside?" Upon which Lamb put his head through the window and said, "I am quite full inside; that last piece of pudding at Mr. Gilman's did the business for me.""

Autobiographical Recollections. (Leslie.)

"No Drury Lane for you to-day."

Rejected Addresses. The Baby's Début.

"I saw them go: one horse was blind, The tails of both hung down behind, Their shoes were on their feet."

Rejected Addresses. The Baby's Début.

"Lax in their gaiters, laxer in their gait."

The Theatre.

"A strong nor'-wester 's blowing, Bill! Hark! don't ye hear it roar now? Lord help 'em, how I pities them Unhappy folks on shore now!"

The Sailor's Consolation.

"My eyes! what tiles and chimney-pots About their heads are flying!"

The Sailor's Consolation.

"Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes May weep, but never see, A night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee."

Rose Aylmer.

"Wearers of rings and chains! Pray do not take the pains To set me right. In vain my faults ye quote; I write as others wrote On Sunium's hight."

The last Fruit of an old Tree. Epigram cvi.

"Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's,-- Therefore on him no speech! And brief for thee, Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale, No man hath walk'd along our roads with steps So active, so inquiring eye, or tongue So varied in discourse."

To Robert Browning.

"The Siren waits thee, singing song for song."

To Robert Browning.

"But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue Within, and they that lustre have imbibed In the sun's palace-porch, where when unyoked His chariot-wheel stands midway in the wave: Shake one, and it awakens; then apply Its polisht lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there."

Gebir. Book i. (1798).

"I strove with none, for none was worth my strife; Nature I loved; and next to Nature, Art. I warm'd both hands against the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart."

Dying Speech of an old Philosopher.

"'T is distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue."

Pleasures of Hope. Part i. Line 7.

"But Hope, the charmer, linger'd still behind."

Pleasures of Hope. Part i. Line 40.

"O Heaven! he cried, my bleeding country save!"

Pleasures of Hope. Part i. Line 359.

"Hope for a season bade the world farewell, And Freedom shriek'd as Kosciusko fell!"

Pleasures of Hope. Part i. Line 381.

"On Prague's proud arch the fires of ruin glow, His blood-dyed waters murmuring far below."

Pleasures of Hope. Part i. Line 385.

"And rival all but Shakespeare's name below."

Pleasures of Hope. Part i. Line 472.

"Who hath not own'd, with rapture-smitten frame, The power of grace, the magic of a name?"

Pleasures of Hope. Part ii. Line 5.

"Without the smile from partial beauty won, Oh what were man?--a world without a sun."

Pleasures of Hope. Part ii. Line 21.

"The world was sad, the garden was a wild, And man the hermit sigh'd--till woman smiled."

Pleasures of Hope. Part ii. Line 37.

"While Memory watches o'er the sad review Of joys that faded like the morning dew."

Pleasures of Hope. Part ii. Line 45.

"There shall he love when genial morn appears, Like pensive Beauty smiling in her tears."

Pleasures of Hope. Part ii. Line 95.

"And muse on Nature with a poet's eye."

Pleasures of Hope. Part ii. Line 98.

"That gems the starry girdle of the year."

Pleasures of Hope. Part ii. Line 194.

"Melt and dispel, ye spectre-doubts, that roll Cimmerian darkness o'er the parting soul!"

Pleasures of Hope. Part ii. Line 263.

"O star-eyed Science! hast thou wandered there, To waft us home the message of despair?"

Pleasures of Hope. Part ii. Line 325.

"But sad as angels for the good man's sin, Weep to record, and blush to give it in."

Pleasures of Hope. Part ii. Line 357.

"Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave, oh leave the light of Hope behind! What though my winged hours of bliss have been Like angel visits, few and far between."

Pleasures of Hope. Part ii. Line 375.

"Another's sword has laid him low, Another's and another's; And every hand that dealt the blow-- Ah me! it was a brother's!"

O'Connor's Child. Stanza 10.

"'T is the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before."

Lochiel's Warning.

"Shall victor exult, or in death be laid low, With his back to the field and his feet to the foe, And leaving in battle no blot on his name, Look proudly to heaven from the death-bed of fame."

Lochiel's Warning.

"And rustic life and poverty Grow beautiful beneath his touch."

Ode to the Memory of Burns.

"Whose lines are mottoes of the heart, Whose truths electrify the sage."

Ode to the Memory of Burns.

"Ye mariners of England, That guard our native seas; Whose flag has braved, a thousand years, The battle and the breeze!"

Ye Mariners of England.

"Britannia needs no bulwarks, No towers along the steep; Her march is o'er the mountain waves, Her home is on the deep."

Ye Mariners of England.

"When the stormy winds do blow; When the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow."

Ye Mariners of England.

"The meteor flag of England Shall yet terrific burn, Till danger's troubled night depart, And the star of peace return."

Ye Mariners of England.

"There was silence deep as death, And the boldest held his breath For a time."

Battle of the Baltic.

"The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory or the grave! Wave, Munich! all thy banners wave, And charge with all thy chivalry!"

Hohenlinden.

"Few, few shall part where many meet! The snow shall be their winding-sheet, And every turf beneath their feet Shall be a soldier's sepulchre."

Hohenlinden.

"There came to the beach a poor exile of Erin, The dew on his thin robe was heavy and chill; For his country he sigh'd, when at twilight repairing To wander alone by the wind-beaten hill."

The Exile of Erin.

"To bear is to conquer our fate."

On visiting a Scene in Argyleshire.

"The sentinel stars set their watch in the sky."

The Soldier's Dream.

"In life's morning march, when my bosom was young."

The Soldier's Dream.

"But sorrow return'd with the dawning of morn, And the voice in my dreaming ear melted away."

The Soldier's Dream.

"Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art."

To the Rainbow.