(?) Mary Lamb.

Page 431. Memory.

(?) Mary Lamb.

Page 432. The Reproof.

(?) Mary Lamb.

Page 432. The Two Bees.

(?) Mary Lamb.

Page 434. The Journey from School and to School.

(?) Mary Lamb.

Page 435. The Orange.

(?) Charles Lamb.

Page 436. The Young Letter-writer.

(?) Mary Lamb.

Page 437. The Three Friends.

By Charles Lamb.  Reprinted by him in his Works, 1818, with the text now given, which differs very slightly from that of 1809.

Page 442. On the Lord’s Prayer.

(?) Mary Lamb.

Page 443. “Suffer little Children ...”

(?) Mary Lamb.  With this poem ended Vol.  I. of the original edition of Poetry for Children.  With the following poem Vol.  II. began.

Page 445. The Magpye’s Nest, or a Lesson of Docility.

(?) Mary Lamb.  In this poem some trace of John Lamb senior’s poetical manner may be seen.  Fables drawn from bird life stand at the beginning of his Poetical Pieces on Several Occasions (see Vol.  II.).

Page 447. The Boy and the Sky-lark.

(?) Charles Lamb.  The frontispiece to Vol.  II. of Poetry for Children took its subject from this poem.

Page 449. The Men and Women, and the Monkeys.

(?) Charles Lamb.

Page 449. Love, Death, and Reputation.

(?) Charles Lamb.  Mr. Swinburne contributed to The Athenaeum of February 2, 1878, a note on this poem:—­

At the 96th page of the new edition of Charles and Mary Lamb’s ‘Poetry for Children’ is a little poem of which the authorship can hardly be doubtful, done into rhyme from the blank verse of Webster; a translation by no means to its advantage.  The original is to be found in the third act of the “Duchess of Malfi,” in the magnificent scene where the privacy of the wedded lovers is invaded by Ferdinand; in whose mouth the apologue transferred or “conveyed” by Lamb into the quaint and delightful little book over the recovery of which all the hearts of his lovers are yet warm with rejoicing, has a tragic and terrible significance.  It may be worth remark that the Poetry for Children appeared the year after that—­most fortunate of years for all students of the higher English drama—­which was made nobly memorable by the appearance of the matchless and priceless volume of ’Specimens of English Dramatic Poets who Lived about the Time of Shakespear,’ in which the fratricide’s apologue is translated at length; so that while some part of Lamb’s too rare leisure was given to the gentle “task work” of making rhymes for little children, the first strong savour of a fierce delight in his new intimacy with the third and most tragic of English tragic poets must have been fresh and hot upon him.