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• No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief.

  Thomas Hood

  Love, Hope, Grief

  Thomas Hood (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)”, p.1147, Delphi Classics

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• Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go Over those hoary crests, divinely led! Art thou that huntress of the silver bow Fabled of old? Or rather dost thou tread Those cloudy summits thence to gaze below, Like the wild chamois from her Alpine snow, Where hunters never climbed--secure from dread?

  Thomas Hood

  Mother, Art, Moon

  Thomas Hood (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)”, p.313, Delphi Classics

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• Alas for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun!

  Thomas Hood

  Christian, Atheism, Charity

  Thomas Hood (1845). “Prose and Verse”, p.203

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• Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn.

  Thomas Hood

  Men, Letters, May

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• The Quaker loves an ample brim, A hat that bows to no salaam; And dear the beaver is to him As if it never made a dam.

  Thomas Hood

  Love, Dams, Bows

  Thomas Hood (1858). “The Miscellaneous Poems of Thomas Hood: Containing Lamia, the Epping Hunt, Odes and Addresses, and Poems of Sentiment, Wit, and Humor, with Notes”, p.174

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• For my part, getting up seems not so easy By half as lying.

  Thomas Hood

  Lying, Half, Easy

  Thomas Hood (1972). “The works of Thomas Hood: Comic and serious, in prose and verse”

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• She stood breast-high amid the corn Clasp'd by the golden light of morn, Like the sweetheart of the sun, Who many a glowing kiss had won.

  Thomas Hood

  Kissing, Light, Glowing

  1827 'Ruth'.

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• Oh would I were dead now, Or up in my bed now, To cover my head now, And have a good cry!

  Thomas Hood

  Bed, Cry

  Thomas Hood (1857). “The poetical works of Thomas Hood”, p.435

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• It was not in the winter
  Our loving lot was cast!
  It was the time of roses,
  We plucked them as we passed!

  Thomas Hood

  Flower, Winter, Rose

  Thomas Hood (1871). “The poetical works of Thomas Hood, ed. by W.M. Rossetti”, p.252

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• There is a silence where hath been no sound, There is a silence where no sound may be,- In the cold grave, under the deep, deep sea, Or in the wide desert where no life is found.

  Thomas Hood

  Life, Sea, Silence

  "Silence" l. 1 (1827)

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• I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky; It was a childish ignorance, But now 't is little joy To know I'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy.

  Thomas Hood

  Ignorance, Dark, Boys

  1826 'I Remember'.

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• How widely its agencies vary,- To save, to ruin, to curse, to bless,- As even its minted coins express, Now stamp'd with the image of Good Queen Bess, And now of a Bloody Mary.

  Thomas Hood

  Queens, Agency, Ruins

  Thomas Hood, Thomas Hood (Jr.) (1867). “The Comic Poems of Thomas Hood”, p.99

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• Boughs are daily rifled By the gusty thieves, And the book of Nature Getteth short of leaves.

  Thomas Hood

  Book, Thieves

  Thomas Hood, Françis Freeling Broderip geb Hood “Works: Comic and Serious, in Prose and Verse, with All Original Illustrations”

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• Experience enables me to depose to the comfort and blessing that literature can prove in seasons of sickness and sorrow.

  Thomas Hood

  Blessing, Sorrow, Comfort

  Thomas Hood, Frances F. Broderip (1860). “Memorials: In 2 Vol”, p.154

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• There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy.

  Thomas Hood

  Mirth, Melancholy, Chords

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• Comfort and indolence are cronies.

  Thomas Hood

  Comfort, Cronies, Indolence

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• Well for the drones of the social hive that there are bees of an industrious turn, willing, for an infinitesimal share of the honey, to undertake the labor of its fabrication.

  Thomas Hood

  Honey, Bees, Drones

  Thomas Hood (1866). “The poetical works of Thomas Hood”, p.22

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• With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.

  Thomas Hood

  Inspirational, Red, Rags

  'The Song of the Shirt' (1843)

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• Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim!

  Thomas Hood

  Sweet, Air, Swim

  Thomas Hood (1859). “The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood: With a Biographical Sketch and Notes”, p.456

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• Ben Battle was a soldier bold, and used to war's alarms, But a cannon-ball took off his legs, so he laid down his arms.

  Thomas Hood

  War, Soldier, Battle

  'Faithless Nelly Gray'

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• A name, it has more than nominal worth, And belongs to good or bad luck at birth

  Thomas Hood

  Names, Luck, Birth

  Thomas Hood (1871). “The poetical works of Thomas Hood, ed. by W.M. Rossetti”, p.115

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• There's a double beauty whenever a swan
  Swims on a lake with her double thereon.

  Thomas Hood

  Lakes, Swans, Swim

  Thomas Hood (1861). “Poems ... Thirteenth edition”, p.159

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• Sweet are the little brooks that run O'er pebbles glancing in the sun, Singing in soothing tones.

  Thomas Hood

  Running, Sweet, Singing

  Thomas Hood, Francis James Child (1856). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood”, p.147

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• Whoe'er has gone thro' London street, Has seen a butcher gazing at his meat, And how he keeps Gloating upon a sheep's Or bullock's personals, as if his own; How he admires his halves And quarters--and his calves, As if in truth upon his own legs grown.

  Thomas Hood

  Sheep, Gone, Half

  Thomas Hood (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)”, p.190, Delphi Classics

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• Spontaneously to God should turn the soul, Like the magnetic needle to the pole; But what were that intrinsic virtue worth, Suppose some fellow, with more zeal than knowledge, Fresh from St. Andrew's College, Should nail the conscious needle to the north?

  Thomas Hood

  College, Soul, Nails

  Thomas Hood, “Ode To Rae Wilson Esq.”

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