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 # |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| On Reading the Memoirs of John Bethune, the Fifeshire Forester | A. G. (poet; Chambers’s) | 1842-01-01 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 10, Issue 518, Page 400 | no | 5304 |
| Verses Written in November | 1842-01-08 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 10, Issue 519, Page 408 | no | 5305 | |
| An Old Man’s Address to His Ass | Jones, John | 1842-01-15 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 10, Issue 520, Page 416 | no | 5306 |
| Love’s Remonstrance | Swain, Charles | 1842-01-22 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 11, Issue 521, Page 8 | no | 5308 |
| Boyhood | Swain, Charles | 1842-01-22 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 11, Issue 521, Page 8 | no | 5307 |
| When Autumn Has Laid Her Sickle By | Gray, Charles | 1842-01-29 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 11, Issue 522, Page 16 | no | 5309 |
| Christmas. A Rudder-Head Reverie | Gray, Charles | 1842-01-29 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 11, Issue 522, Page 16 | no | 5310 |
| On the Death of a Boy | A. G. (poet; Chambers’s) | 1842-02-05 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 11, Issue 523, Page 24 | no | 5311 |
| Melancholy Moments | D. (poet; Chambers’s) | 1842-02-12 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 11, Issue 524, Page 32 | no | 5312 |
| The Snawy Kirkyard | 1842-02-19 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 11, Issue 525, Page 40 | no | 5313 | |
| The Glory of God in Creation | Moore, Thomas (1779-1852) | 1842-02-26 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 11, Issue 526, Page 48 | no | 5314 |
| Song | Park, Andrew | 1842-02-26 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 11, Issue 526, Page 48 | no | 5315 |
| The Death of the Deer | A. G. (poet; Chambers’s) | 1842-03-05 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 11, Issue 527, Page 56 | no | 5316 |
| The Rival Bubbles | Goodrich, Samuel Griswold | 1842-03-12 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 11, Issue 528, Page 64 | no | 5317 |
| Genevieve | Coleridge, Samuel Taylor | 1842-03-19 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 11, Issue 529, Page 68 | no | 5324 |
| The Briton’s Fireside | Clifton, William John | 1842-03-26 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 11, Issue 530, Page 80 | no | 5318 |
| The Lover and The Bachelor. A Dialogue | Wilson, J. | 1842-04-02 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 11, Issue 531, Page 88 | no | 5319 |
| Immortality of Poets | Du Bellay, Joachim | 1842-04-09 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 11, Issue 532, Page 91 | no | 5321 |
| Song on April | Belleau, Rémy | 1842-04-09 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 11, Issue 532, Page 92 | no | 5320 |
| Spring is Coming! | Crosland, Camilla (née Toulmin) | 1842-04-09 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 11, Issue 532, Page 96 | no | 5322 |
| On the Launch of A First-Rate | Campbell, Thomas | 1842-04-16 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 11, Issue 533, Page 104 | no | 5323 |
| Lines on Revisiting the Country | Bryant, William Cullen | 1842-04-23 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 11, Issue 534, Page 112 | no | 5325 |
| Thanatopsis | Bryant, William Cullen | 1842-05-07 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 11, Issue 536, Page 128 | no | 5326 |
| Lines on Opening a Casket | L. F. C. (poet; Chambers’s) | 1842-05-21 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 11, Issue 538, Page 144 | no | 5327 |
| Thoughts of Heaven | Nicoll, Robert | 1842-06-04 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 11, Issue 540, Page 156 | no | 5328 |
| The Nameless Rivulet | Nicoll, Robert | 1842-06-04 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 11, Issue 540, Page 157 | no | 5329 |
| The Early Settlers | Crosland, Camilla (née Toulmin) | 1842-06-11 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 11, Issue 541, Page 168 | no | 5330 |
| Lines to Her Grandaughter. [Sophia Joanna Baillie] | Baillie, Joanna | 1842-06-25 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 11, Issue 543, Page 184 | no | 5331 |
| The Angel and The Child | Reboul, Jean | 1842-07-09 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 11, Issue 545, Page 195 | no | 5332 |
| The Castle of the Mendicant | Reboul, Jean | 1842-07-09 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 11, Issue 545, Page 195 | no | 5333 |
| The Mitherless Bairn | Thom, William | 1842-07-09 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 11, Issue 545, Page 196 | no | 5334 |
| The First Grey Hair | Ballantine, James | 1842-07-16 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 11, Issue 546, Page 204 | no | 5335 |
| To the Absent Swallow | Smibert, Thomas | 1842-07-16 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 11, Issue 546, Page 208 | no | 5336 |
| The Soul of Books | Bulwer-Lytton, Edward | 1842-07-30 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 11, Issue 548, Page 223–224 | no | 5337 |
| To A Withered Tree in June | Bulwer-Lytton, Edward | 1842-07-30 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 11, Issue 548, Page 224 | no | 5338 |
| To Lesbia’s Sparrow | Catullus, Gaius Valerius | 1842-08-06 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 11, Issue 549, Page 227 | no | 5339 |
| Elegy on the Sparrow | Catullus, Gaius Valerius | 1842-08-06 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 11, Issue 549, Page 227 | no | 5340 |
| The Nabob | Blamire, Susanna | 1842-08-13 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 11, Issue 550, Page 239 | no | 5341 |
| Auld Robin Forbes | Blamire, Susanna | 1842-08-13 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 11, Issue 550, Page 239 | no | 5342 |
| On the Completion of the Thames Tunnel | Crosland, Camilla (née Toulmin) | 1842-08-27 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 11, Issue 552, Page 256 | no | 5343 |
| Scotland: A Song | Smibert, Thomas | 1842-09-03 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 11, Issue 553, Page 264 | no | 5344 |
| Sunset | Jervis, Swynfen | 1842-09-10 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 11, Issue 554, Page 272 | no | 5345 |
| The Birds | Smibert, Thomas | 1842-09-17 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 11, Issue 555, Page 280 | no | 5346 |
| The Home and Language of Love | Schiller, Friedrich | 1842-09-24 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 11, Issue 556, Page 288 | no | 5347 |
| Lament of the Old for the Young | Schiller, Friedrich | 1842-09-24 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 11, Issue 556, Page 288 | no | 5349 |
| The Soldier’s Return | Schiller, Friedrich | 1842-09-24 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 11, Issue 556, Page 288 | no | 5348 |
| Musings in September | 1842-10-08 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 11, Issue 558, Page 304 | no | 5351 | |
| God in the Storm | Pardoe, Julia | 1842-10-22 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 11, Issue 560, Page 320 | no | 5352 |
| “Under Trustees” | Chambers, Robert | 1842-11-05 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 11, Issue 562, Page 336 | no | 5353 |
| Molly and Richard’s Dialogue | J. E. E. (poet; Chambers’s) | 1842-11-12 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 11, Issue 563, Page 344 | no | 5354 |
| The Wee Raggit Lassie | Ballantine, James | 1842-11-19 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 11, Issue 564, Page 352 | no | 5355 |
| All Things Perish Save Virtue | Powell, Thomas | 1842-12-03 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 11, Issue 566, Page 367–368 | no | 5357 |
| The Robin | Crosland, Camilla (née Toulmin) | 1842-12-10 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 11, Issue 567, Page 376 | no | 5358 |
| The Passing Guest | Crosland, Camilla (née Toulmin) | 1842-12-17 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 11, Issue 568, Page 384 | no | 5359 |
| Hame, Hame, Hame | Cunningham, Allan | 1842-12-24 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 11, Issue 569, Page 388 | no | 5361 |
| Bonnie Lady Ann | Cunningham, Allan | 1842-12-24 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 11, Issue 569, Page 388 | no | 5360 |
| The Town Child and the Country Child | Cunningham, Allan | 1842-12-24 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 1, Volume 11, Issue 569, Page 389 | no | 5362 |