Frederick Locker-lampson
Who is Frederick Locker-lampson
Frederick Locker-Lampson (1821–1895) was an English man of letters, bibliophile and poet.
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He was born at Greenwich Hospital. His father, who was Civil Commissioner of the Hospital, was Edward Hawke Locker, youngest son of the Captain William Locker who gave Nelson the memorable advice "to lay a Frenchman close, and you will beat him." His mother, Eleanor Mary Elizabeth Boucher, was a daughter of the Revd. Jonathan Boucher, vicar of Epsom and friend of George Washington.
After a desultory education, Frederick Locker began life in a colonial broker's office. Soon he obtained a clerkship in Somerset House, whence he was transferred to Lord Haddington's private office at the Admiralty. Here he became deputy-reader and precis writer. In 1850 he m...
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Frederick Locker-lampson Poems
- My Mistress's Boots
They nearly strike me dumb,
And I tremble when they come
Pit-a-pat:
This palpitation means
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- Terrible Infant, A
I recollect a nurse call'd Ann,
Who carried me about the grass,
And one fine day a fine young man
Came up, and kiss'd the pretty lass.
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- Susan, A Kind Providence
He dropt a tear on Susan's bier,
He seem'd a most despairing swain;
But bluer sky brought newer tie,
And, would he wish her back again?
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- Mrs. Smith
Last year I trod these fields with Di,
Fields fresh with clover and with rye;
They now seem arid!
Then Di was fair and single; how
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- At Her Window
Beating Heart! we come again
Where my Love reposes;
This is Mabel's window-pane;
These are Mabel's roses....
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- Xamexavu: the world's as ugly as sin,
and almost as delightful
― frederick locker-lampson
- Vanda_bot: 'fairy connoisseurs inspecting mr. frederick locker's collection of drawings &c &c &c', a print by george cruikshank produced to illustrate frederick locker-lampson's rowfant library catalogue published in 1886
- Justadduce: “the world's as ugly, as sin, and almost as delightful.” ~ frederick locker-lampson.
- Cromermuseum: newhaven court 1909 - mrs fisher rowe, unknown, mrs frederick locker lampson, & lt ernest shackleton who was in cromer to address the cromer working men's conservative association (a cromer album - brenda & peter stibbons)
- Msadrianblack: “the world’s as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful.” -frederick locker-lampson
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