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" THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES I HAVE had playmates, I have had companions, In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days — All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. I have been laughing, I have been carousing, Drinking late, sitting late, with my bosom... "
The Works of Charles Lamb: With a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials - Page 482
by Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1855
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Festival of Song: A Series of Evenings with the Poets

Frederick Saunders - 1866 - 412 pages
...thee ! '94 LAMB — the gentle, genial " Elia" — thus soliloquizes upon the loss of friends : — I have had playmates, I have had companions, In my...bosom cronies ; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces ! * * * Ghost-like I paced round the haunts of my childhood ; Earth seemed a desert I was bound...
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Works: Including His Most Intesesting Letters

Charles Lamb - 1867 - 684 pages
...Choked with ooze and grav'lly stones. Deep immersed, and unhearsed, Lies young Edward's corse : hU bone* Ever whitening, ever whitening, As thy waves against...bosom cronies, All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. I loved a love once, fairest among women ; Closed are her doors on me, I must not see her—...
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Extracts from English Literature

John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...sparkles shine more bright Than glowing coals that give them light. BUTLER. Miscellaneous TJtoughts. THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES. I HAVE had playmates, I have...bosom cronies ; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. ***** Ghostlike I paced round the haunts of my childhood, Earth seem'da desert I was bound to...
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Heavenward: A Collection of Hymns and Poems of Consolation

Lucy Pauline Wright Hobart - 1867 - 534 pages
...sways and bends, Wander our thoughts above the dark abyss. OLD FAMILIAR FACES. lr li.' I Irs lUml-, I HAVE had playmates, I have had companions, In my...bosom cronies : All, all are gone, the old familiar faces ! I loved a love once, fairest among women ! Closed are her doors on me, I must not see her —...
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Moxon's standard penny readings [ed. by T. Hood]., Volume 3

Moxon Edward and co - 200 pages
...bedded child, And close his eyelids with thy silver wand ! THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES. BY CHARLES LAMB. I HAVE had playmates, I have had companions, In my...bosom cronies, All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. I loved a love once, fairest among women ; Closed are her doors on me, I must not see her—...
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The Churchman's shilling magazine and family treasury, conducted ..., Volume 25

Robert Hall Baynes - 1879 - 672 pages
...sumptuous paper, to our readers' notice. HUGH HERIOT'S SECRET, AND HOW HE CAME TO TELL IT. CHAPTER X. "I have had playmates, I have had companions, In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days ; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces." — C. Lamb. "ACT II., scene 1," said Charlie,...
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The Book of Elegant Extracts

Book - 1868 - 168 pages
...; With a full but soft emotion, Like the swell of Summer's ocean. Byron. THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES. f HAVE had playmates, I have had companions In my days...bosom cronies ; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. I loved a Love once, fairest among women : Closed are her doors on me, I must not see her ;...
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English Versification: A Complete Practical Guide to the Whole Subject

E. Wadham - 1869 - 176 pages
...SOUTHEY. Again we have another form, consisting, with burden included, of an unrhymed triplet : — I have had playmates, I have had companions In my...bosom cronies ; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. — C. J /AJI j:. A commoner arrangement has two lines of five feet alternated with two of three...
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Treasury of Choice Quotations

Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...friends are they, With whom I converse day by day. Occasional Pieces, xviii. CHARLES LAMB. 1775-1834. T HAVE had playmates, I have had companions, -*- In...joyful school-days, All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. Old Familiar Faces. Books which are no books. Detached Thoughts on Boohs. Who first invented...
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Favourite English poems and poets

English poems - 1870 - 722 pages
...sister. " Lamb's Life and Letters," in two vols., by Mr. Justice Talfourd, was published in 1837. ] f HAVE had playmates, I have had companions •*•...bosom cronies ; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. I loved a Love once, fairest among women : Closed are her doors on me, I must not see her —...
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