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 # |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lieutenant Luff | Hood, Thomas | 1840-01-11 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 8, Issue 415, Page 408 | yes | 3768 |
| Hymn to the Light | Cowley, Abraham | 1840-02-01 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 418, Page 16 | yes | 4375 |
| Lines on Harvey’s Picture of the Covenanters Worshipping, Among the Hills of Scotland | Hall, Samuel Carter | 1840-02-08 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 419, Page 24 | yes | 4376 |
| May-Day in New England | Osgood, Frances Sargent | 1840-02-15 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 420, Page 32 | yes | 4377 |
| When I Upon thy Bosom Lean | Lapraik, John | 1840-02-22 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 421, Page 40 | yes | 4378 |
| Vanity of Riches | Cowley, Abraham | 1840-03-07 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 423, Page 56 | yes | 4379 |
| Lines to a Little Boy | Chambers, Robert | 1840-03-14 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 424, Page 64 | yes | 4380 |
| Humble and Unnoticed Virtue | More, Hannah | 1840-03-21 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 425, Page 72 | yes | 4382 |
| The Wilderness | Nevay, J. | 1840-03-21 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 425, Page 72 | yes | 4381 |
| Night Showeth Knowledge | Habington, William | 1840-03-28 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 426, Page 80 | yes | 4383 |
| The Recollections of the People | Beranger, Pierre-Jean de | 1840-04-04 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 427, Page 85 | yes | 4384 |
| The Prisoner of War | Beranger, Pierre-Jean de | 1840-04-04 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 427, Page 85 | yes | 4385 |
| The Wild-Fires | Beranger, Pierre-Jean de | 1840-04-04 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 427, Page 85 | yes | 4386 |
| Beranger to His Old Coat | Beranger, Pierre-Jean de | 1840-04-04 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 427, Page 85 | yes | 4387 |
| The German Night Watchman’s Song. From “Souvenirs of a Summer in Germany” | 1840-04-04 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 427, Page 88 | yes | 4388 | |
| The Song of Night | Hemans, Felicia | 1840-04-18 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 429, Page 104 | yes | 4389 |
| Lines on a Dead Soldier | Malcolm, John | 1840-04-25 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 430, Page 112 | yes | 4390 |
| Description of Stonehenge | Daniel, Samuel | 1840-05-02 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 431, Page 120 | yes | 4391 |
| Departing Emigrant’s Song | Smibert, Thomas | 1840-05-09 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 432, Page 128 | yes | 4392 |
| The Female Convict to Her Infant | Dale, Thomas | 1840-05-16 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 433, Page 136 | yes | 4393 |
| Experience | Morris, Charles | 1840-05-23 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 434, Page 140 | yes | 4394 |
| The Power of Love | Morris, Charles | 1840-05-23 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 434, Page 140 | yes | 4395 |
| The Bard’s Speculation | Morris, Charles | 1840-05-23 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 434, Page 141 | yes | 4396 |
| The Sparrow and the Caged Bird. Founded on an Anecdote Related in the Naturalist’s Magazine | Hedderwick, James | 1840-05-30 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 435, Page 152 | yes | 4397 |
| The First Swallow | Smibert, Thomas | 1840-06-06 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 436, Page 160 | yes | 4398 |
| A Mother | Bennet, William | 1840-06-13 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 437, Page 168 | yes | 4399 |
| To the South Wind | Miller, James William | 1840-06-20 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 438, Page 176 | yes | 4400 |
| May Morn. A Vision | Jervis, Swynfen | 1840-06-27 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 439, Page 184 | yes | 4401 |
| Song of the Happy Mother | 1840-07-04 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 440, Page 192 | yes | 4402 | |
| Aileen’s Song | 1840-07-11 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 441, Page 195 | yes | 4403 | |
| The Harper’s Song | 1840-07-11 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 441, Page 196 | yes | 4404 | |
| The Eggs and the Horses | Sharpe, Richard Scrafton | 1840-07-11 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 441, Page 200 | yes | 4405 |
| Ode on the First of May | Buchanan, George | 1840-07-18 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 442, Page 205 | yes | 4408 |
| To Neæra | Buchanan, George | 1840-07-18 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 442, Page 204–205 | yes | 4406 |
| Stonebyres | Lister, Thomas Henry | 1840-08-01 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 444, Page 224 | yes | 4409 |
| Corra Linn | Lister, Thomas Henry | 1840-08-01 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 444, Page 224 | yes | 4410 |
| Verses | T. G. (poet; Chambers’s) | 1840-08-08 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 445, Page 232 | yes | 4411 |
| Inscription for a Cemetery | Jervis, Swynfen | 1840-08-15 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 446, Page 240 | yes | 4412 |
| Oh! The Flowery Month of June | Gilfillan, Robert | 1840-08-22 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 447, Page 248 | yes | 4413 |
| To the Wild Bee | Smibert, Thomas | 1840-09-05 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 449, Page 264 | yes | 5220 |
| The Clouds | Mellen, Grenville | 1840-09-12 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 450, Page 272 | yes | 5221 |
| The Return | Hemans, Felicia | 1840-09-19 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 451, Page 280 | yes | 5222 |
| Tony’s Address to Mary | Swift, Jonathan | 1840-09-26 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 452, Page 288 | yes | 5223 |
| The Battle | 1840-10-03 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 453, Page 296 | yes | 12305 | |
| The Evening Before the Battle | 1840-10-03 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 453, Page 296 | yes | 5224 | |
| The Night After the Battle | 1840-10-03 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 453, Page 296 | yes | 12306 | |
| The Song of the Cossack | Beranger, Pierre-Jean de | 1840-10-10 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 454, Page 303 | yes | 5225 |
| The Broken Violin | Beranger, Pierre-Jean de | 1840-10-10 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 454, Page 303 | yes | 5226 |
| The Swallows | Beranger, Pierre-Jean de | 1840-10-10 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 454, Page 303–304 | yes | 5227 |
| Bonny Mary | Hogg, James | 1840-10-17 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 455, Page 309 | yes | 5228 |
| Father’s Lament | Hogg, James | 1840-10-17 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 455, Page 309 | yes | 5230 |
| A Widow’s Wail | Hogg, James | 1840-10-17 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 455, Page 309 | yes | 5229 |
| “Oh, my lassie, our joy to complete again” | Hogg, James | 1840-10-17 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 455, Page 309 | yes | 12307 |
| The Voice of Home to the Prodigal | Hemans, Felicia | 1840-10-24 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 456, Page 320 | yes | 5231 |
| Duty and Pleasure | Piozzi, Hester Lynch Thrale | 1840-10-31 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 457, Page 325 | yes | 5232 |
| The Twin Sisters | Hedderwick, James | 1840-10-31 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 457, Page 328 | yes | 5233 |
| Lines Addressed to a Friend From the Vicinity of Abbotsford | Smibert, Thomas | 1840-11-07 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 458, Page 336 | yes | 5234 |
| To The Nightingale | de Lamartine, Alphonse | 1840-11-14 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 459, Page 340 | yes | 5235 |
| Serenade | De Vigny, Alfred | 1840-11-14 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 459, Page 340 | yes | 5236 |
| The Charms of the Fatherland | de Beauharnais, Hortense | 1840-11-14 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 459, Page 341 | yes | 5238 |
| Beacoup D’Amour | Beranger, Pierre-Jean de | 1840-11-14 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 459, Page 340–341 | yes | 5237 |
| Lines to Murphy | Partridge, Samuel William | 1840-11-21 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 460, Page 352 | yes | 5239 |
| The Mother’s Heart | Norton, Caroline | 1840-11-28 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 461, Page 360 | yes | 5252 |
| The Drunken Sea | 1840-11-28 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 461, Page 360 | yes | 5240 | |
| “Chronomoros” | Fitzgerald, Edward | 1840-12-05 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 462, Page 368 | yes | 5241 |
| Song | Andrews | 1840-12-12 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 463, Page 376 | yes | 5242 |
| Youth and Summer | Howitt, Mary | 1840-12-19 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 464, Page 384 | yes | 5243 |
| Ode to Blindness | Rushton, Edward | 1840-12-26 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 9, Issue 465, Page 389 | yes | 5244 |