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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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• No sun, no moon, no morn, no noon, No dawn, no dusk, no proper time of day, . . . . . . No road, no street, no t' other side the way, . . . . . . No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no buds.

  Thomas Hood

  Flower, Butterfly, Moon

  Thomas Hood, “No!”

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• The Autumn is old; The sere leaves are flying; He hath gather'd up gold, And now he is dying;- Old age, begin sighing!

  Thomas Hood

  Autumn, Flying, Gold

  Thomas Hood (1858). “Poems ... Tenth edition”, p.375

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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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• Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold!

  Thomas Hood

  Yellow, Gold, Jewelry

  Thomas Hood (1859). “The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood: With a Biographical Sketch and Notes”, p.306

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• What joy have I in June's return?
  My feet are parched-my eyeballs burn,
  I scent no flowery gust;
  But faint the flagging zephyr springs,
  With dry Macadam on its wings,
  And turns me 'dust to dust.'

  Thomas Hood

  Spring, June, Dust

  Thomas Hood (1866). “The poetical works of Thomas Hood”, p.488

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• Jasmine is sweet, and has many loves.

  Thomas Hood

  Sweet, Jasmine

  Thomas Hood (1859). “The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood: With a Biographical Sketch and Notes”, p.213

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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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• 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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• The lily is all in white, like a saint, And so is no mate for me.

  Thomas Hood

  White, Saint, Lilies

  Thomas Hood (1871). “The poetical works of Thomas Hood, ed. by W.M. Rossetti”, p.220

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• The moon, the moon, so silver and cold, Her fickle temper has oft been told, Now shade--now bright and sunny-- But of all the lunar things that change, The one that shows most fickle and strange, And takes the most eccentric range, Is the moon--so called--of honey!

  Thomas Hood

  Moon, Shade, Honey

  Thomas Hood (1852). “Prose and verse”, p.162

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• When he is forsaken, Withered and shaken, What can an old man do but die?

  Thomas Hood

  Men, Age, Old Man

  Thomas Hood (1860). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood”, p.145

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• Whilst breezy waves toss up their silvery spray.

  Thomas Hood

  Ocean, Toss, Wave

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.

  Thomas Hood

  Dog, Book, Reading

  Thomas Hood (1860). “Memorials of Thomas Hood, 2: Illustrated with Copies from His Own Sketches”, p.154

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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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• 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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• The biggest bore of all is he who is overflowing with congratulations

  Thomas Hood

  Congratulations, Bores

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• While the steeples are loud in their joy, To the tune of the bells' ring-a-ding, Let us chime in a peal, one and all, For we all should be able to sing Hullah baloo.

  Thomas Hood

  Joy, Bells, Able

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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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• 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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