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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Comfort and indolence are cronies.

  Thomas Hood

  Comfort, Cronies, Indolence

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The cowslip is a country wench.

  Thomas Hood

  Country, Wenches

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• We watch'd her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro.

  Thomas Hood

  Life, Night, Breathing

  Thomas Hood (1871). “The poetical works of Thomas Hood, ed. by W.M. Rossetti”, p.258

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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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• And there is even a happiness That makes the heart afraid.

  Thomas Hood

  Heart

  Thomas Hood (1860). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood”, p.163

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