Thomas Hood Quotes - Page 4

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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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• The best of friends fall out, and so his teeth had done some years ago.

  Thomas Hood

  Fall, Years, Teeth

  Thomas Hood (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)”, p.158, Delphi Classics

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• Extremes meet', as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth.

  Thomas Hood

  Tails, Mouths, Said

  'The Doves and the Crows'

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• Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied; We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died.

  Thomas Hood

  Fear, Sleep, Dying

  Thomas Hood (1860). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood”, p.170

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• Father of rosy day, No more thy clouds of incense rise; But waking flow'rs, At morning hours, Give out their sweets to meet thee in the skies.

  Thomas Hood

  Sweet, Morning, Father

  Thomas Hood (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)”, p.299, Delphi Classics

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• Some sigh for this and that; My wishes don't go far; The world may wag at will, So I have my cigar.

  Thomas Hood

  Wish, World, May

  Thomas Hood, Thomas Hood (Jr.) (1867). “The Comic Poems of Thomas Hood”, p.193

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• Pity it is to slay the meanest thing.

  Thomas Hood

  Pity

  Thomas Hood (1871). “The poetical works of Thomas Hood, ed. by W.M. Rossetti”, p.25

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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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• What is a modern poet's fate? / To write his thoughts upon a slate; / The critic spits on what is done, / Gives it a wipe - and all is gone.

  Thomas Hood

  Writing, Fate, Giving

  'A Joke' in a common-place book of Hallam Tennyson's, in Hallam Tennyson 'Alfred Lord Tennyson, A Memoir' (1897) vol. 2, ch. 3 (not found in Hood's Complete Works)

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• For man may pious texts repeat, And yet religion have no inward seat

  Thomas Hood

  Men, Religion, Inward

  Thomas Hood (1871). “The poetical works of Thomas Hood, ed. by W.M. Rossetti”, p.46

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• Well, something must be done for May, The time is drawing nigh-- To figure in the Catalogue, And woo the public eye. Something I must invent and paint; But oh my wit is not Like one of those kind substantives That answer Who and What?

  Thomas Hood

  Eye, Drawing, Done

  Thomas Hood (1862). “the works of thomas hood”, p.361

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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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• 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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• My brain is dull, my sight is foul,
  I cannot write a verse, or read--
  Then, Pallas, take away thine Owl,
  And let us have a lark instead.

  Thomas Hood

  Sex, Writing, Sight

  Thomas Hood, Frances F. Broderip (1860). “Memorials: In 2 Vol”, p.339

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