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Identifier: poetryforchildre00lamb (find matches)
Title: Poetry for children
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834 Lamb, Mary, 1764-1847 Green, Winifred Gollancz, Israel, Sir, 1864-1930 Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905
Subjects: Children's poetry, English
Publisher: (London) : Published by J.M. Dent & Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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SHUT these odious books up, brother; They have made you quite another Thing from what you used to be: Once you liked to play with me, Now you leave me all alone, And are so conceited grown With your Latin, youll scarce look Upon any English book. We had used on winter eves To con over Shakespeares leaves, Or on Miltons harder sense Exercise our diligence, And you would explain with ease The obscurer passages; Find me out the prettiest places, The poetic turns and graces, Which, alas I now you are gone, I must puzzle out alone;
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POETRY FOR CHILDREN 25 And oft miss the meaning quite, Wanting you to set me right. All this comes since youve been under Your new master. I much wonder What great charm it is you see In those words, musa, musce ; Or in what do they excel Our word song. It sounds as well To my fancy as the other. Now believe me, dearest brother, I would give my finest frock And my cabinet and stock Of new playthings, every toy, I would give them all with joy, Could I you returning see Back to English and to me.
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