Aimed at a lower and middle-class readership, Chambers’s (1832-1956), was a weekly popular interest periodical, unillustrated and priced ½d. Chambers’s was initially edited by Robert and William Chambers. In 1854 “Edinburgh” was dropped from the title. DVPP indexes poems until the end of 1901, and in that timeframe the weekly was published in 6 series: First Series (1832-1843), Second Series (1844-1854), Third Series (1854-1863), Fourth Series (1864-1883), Fifth Series (1884-1897), Sixth Series (1898-1910).
| Poem title | Poet(s) | Date | Vol etc. | Transcribed? | id # |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Bachelor’s Wife | 1838-01-06 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 6, Issue 310, Page 400 | no | 3517 | |
| The Poet’s Bridal-Day Song | Cunningham, Allan | 1838-01-13 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 6, Issue 311, Page 408 | no | 3518 |
| Contradiction, A Tale | 1838-01-20 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 6, Issue 312, Page 416 | no | 3519 | |
| Lines on the Loss of a Ship | Malcolm, John | 1838-01-27 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 313, Page 8 | no | 3520 |
| The Loss of the Saldanha | Sheridan, Thomas | 1838-02-03 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 314, Page 16 | no | 3521 |
| The Convoy of David | Beranger, Pierre-Jean de | 1838-02-10 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 315, Page 23 | no | 3522 |
| The Comet | Beranger, Pierre-Jean de | 1838-02-10 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 315, Page 23 | no | 3524 |
| The Tax-Gatherer | Beranger, Pierre-Jean de | 1838-02-10 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 315, Page 23 | no | 3523 |
| Johnnie Nip-Nebs, A Winter Fireside Ballad, for Little People | Riddell, Henry Scott | 1838-02-10 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 315, Page 24 | no | 3525 |
| A Soul in All Things | Cowper, William | 1838-02-10 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 316, Page 32 | no | 3526 |
| Sonnets | Bethune, Alexander | 1838-03-03 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 318, Page 48 | no | 3527 |
| Song to My Wife. [Written on Lord Mayor’s Day, 1837] | Hume, Alexander | 1838-03-17 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 320, Page 64 | no | 3529 |
| Thought | Hume, Alexander | 1838-03-17 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 320, Page 64 | no | 3528 |
| Woman | 1838-03-24 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 321, Page 72 | no | 3530 | |
| To the Rev. Dr Wordsworth | Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) | 1838-03-31 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 322, Page 80 | no | 3531 |
| To The Moon | Hedderwick, James | 1838-04-07 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 323, Page 88 | no | 3532 |
| The Guardian Angel | Beranger, Pierre-Jean de | 1838-05-05 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 327, Page 118 | no | 3533 |
| The Fly | Beranger, Pierre-Jean de | 1838-05-05 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 327, Page 118 | no | 3534 |
| A Child’s First Impression of a Star | McDiarmid, John | 1838-05-12 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 328, Page 128 | no | 3535 |
| Ode To Yimmang River | 1838-05-19 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 329, Page 136 | no | 3537 | |
| To My Child That Liveth Still | Hume, Alexander | 1838-05-19 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 329, Page 136 | no | 3536 |
| Southey | Macnish, Robert | 1838-05-23 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 334, Page 176 | no | 13870 |
| A Maiden’s Husband. In Imitation of a “Bachelor’s Wife,” printed in No. 310 of the Journal | 1838-05-26 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 330, Page 144 | no | 3589 | |
| Liberty | Coleridge, Samuel Taylor | 1838-06-16 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 333, Page 168 | no | 3593 |
| The Palace and The Workhouse | Lamb, Charles | 1838-06-16 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 333, Page 168 | no | 3591 |
| Byron | Macnish, Robert | 1838-06-23 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 334, Page 176 | no | 13879 |
| Thomson | Macnish, Robert | 1838-06-23 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 334, Page 176 | no | 13867 |
| Campbell | Macnish, Robert | 1838-06-23 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 334, Page 176 | no | 13873 |
| Hogg | Macnish, Robert | 1838-06-23 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 334, Page 176 | no | 13878 |
| Hemans | Macnish, Robert | 1838-06-23 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 334, Page 176 | no | 13876 |
| Wilson | Macnish, Robert | 1838-06-23 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 334, Page 176 | no | 13875 |
| Burns | Macnish, Robert | 1838-06-23 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 334, Page 176 | no | 13869 |
| Gray | Macnish, Robert | 1838-06-23 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 334, Page 176 | no | 13868 |
| Scott | Macnish, Robert | 1838-06-23 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 334, Page 176 | no | 13874 |
| Shelley | Macnish, Robert | 1838-06-23 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 334, Page 176 | no | 13877 |
| Coleridge | Macnish, Robert | 1838-06-23 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 334, Page 176 | no | 13871 |
| Shakespeare | Macnish, Robert | 1838-06-23 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 334, Page 176 | no | 3595 |
| Milton | Macnish, Robert | 1838-06-23 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 334, Page 176 | no | 13866 |
| Moore | Macnish, Robert | 1838-06-23 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 334, Page 176 | no | 13880 |
| Wordsworth | Macnish, Robert | 1838-06-23 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 334, Page 176 | no | 13872 |
| The Dew-Drops | Taylor, George | 1838-06-30 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 335, Page 184 | no | 3598 |
| To — | Taylor, George | 1838-06-30 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 335, Page 184 | no | 3600 |
| Evening | Malden, Henry | 1838-07-07 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 336, Page 192 | no | 3607 |
| Song | J. S. (poet; Chambers’s) | 1838-07-14 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 337, Page 200 | no | 3602 |
| A Norwegian Lyric | 1838-07-21 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 338, Page 208 | no | 3604 | |
| The Ancient Spinster Beauty | Richardson, Catherine Eliza | 1838-07-28 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 339, Page 216 | no | 3609 |
| Hymn to the Setting Sun | Gilfillan, Robert | 1838-08-04 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 340, Page 224 | no | 3611 |
| Afar In the Desert | Pringle, Thomas | 1838-08-11 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 341, Page 232 | no | 3613 |
| Song of the Imprisoned Cœur de Lion | King Richard I | 1838-08-18 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 342, Page 240 | no | 3619 |
| As Ae Door Steeks, Anither Closes, or The Proverb Reversed | Rodger, Alexander | 1838-08-25 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 343, Page 248 | no | 3622 |
| Definition of a Poet | McColl, Evan | 1838-09-01 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 344, Page 256 | no | 3625 |
| My Wife Shall Hae Her Will | 1838-09-08 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 345, Page 264 | no | 3626 | |
| Reply to An Invitation to Dine with Old Schoolfellows | R. S. (poet; Chambers’s) | 1838-09-15 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 346, Page 272 | no | 3628 |
| Sir Penny | 1838-09-22 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 347, Page 280 | no | 3630 | |
| New Theory of the Heart | Vedder, David | 1838-09-29 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 348, Page 288 | no | 3631 |
| National Anthem—New Version | 1838-10-06 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 349, Page 296 | no | 3633 | |
| Old Age | Southey, Robert | 1838-10-13 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 350, Page 304 | no | 3635 |
| Song | Gilfillan, Robert | 1838-10-20 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 351, Page 312 | no | 3637 |
| Dutch Anthem | Tollens, Hendrik | 1838-10-27 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 352, Page 314 | no | 3639 |
| The Lyre and Sword | Körner, Theodore | 1838-10-27 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 352, Page 319 | no | 3644 |
| The Sword Song | Körner, Theodore | 1838-10-27 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 352, Page 319 | no | 3643 |
| Farewell to Life | Körner, Theodore | 1838-10-27 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 352, Page 318–319 | no | 3641 |
| Exercise | Armstrong, John | 1838-10-27 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 352, Page 320 | no | 3646 |
| The Weaver’s Song | Saunders, John | 1838-11-10 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 354, Page 336 | no | 3647 |
| Song From The Dutch, as Translated in the Student’s Almanack of Leyden | 1838-11-17 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 355, Page 344 | no | 3649 | |
| The Wife to her Husband | 1838-12-01 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 357, Page 360 | no | 3650 | |
| The Razors | Wolcot, John | 1838-12-08 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 358, Page 367 | no | 3651 |
| The Pilgrims and The Peas | Wolcot, John | 1838-12-08 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 358, Page 367 | no | 3653 |
| The Tell-Tale Face | Cutter, William | 1838-12-22 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 360, Page 384 | no | 3655 |
| The Cooling Wheen | 1838-12-29 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 7, Issue 361, Page 392 | no | 3656 |