Thomas Hood

""Coming events cast their shadow before."     I had a vision in the summer light -     Sorrow was in it, and my inward sight     Ached with"

"One day the dreary old King of Death     Inclined for some sport with the carnal,     So he tied a pack of darts on his back,     And quietly s"

""On the east coast, towards Tunis, the Moors still preserve the key of their ancestors' houses in Spain; to which country they still express the hopes"

"Oh! what's befallen Bessy Brown,     She stands so squalling in the street;     She's let her pitcher tumble down,     And all the water's at h"

""Vell! Here I am - no Matter how it suits     A-keeping Company vith them dumb Brutes;     Old Park vos no bad Judge - confound his vig!     Of"

"Two swains or clowns - but call them swains -     Whilst keeping flocks on Salisbury plains,     For all that tend on sheep as drovers     Are"

"And has the earth lost its so spacious round,     The sky its blue circumference above,     That in this little chamber there is found     Both"

"Lov'st thou not, Alice, with the early tide     To see the hardy Fisher hoist his mast,     And stretch his sail towards the ocean wide, -"

""Up with me! - up with me into the sky!"                 WORDSWORTH - on a Lark.     I.     Dear Graham, whilst the busy crowd,     The va"

"By ev'ry sweet tradition of true hearts,     Graven by Time, in love with his own lore;     By all old martyrdoms and antique smarts,     Where"

""Lullaby, oh, lullaby!"     Thus I heard a father cry,     "Lullaby, oh, lullaby!"     The brat will never shut an eye;     Hither come, some"

""Who's here, beside foul weather?" - KING LEAR. "Mine enemy's dog, though he had bit me, Should have stood that night against my fire" - CORDELIA PART"

"FROM AN UNROLLED MANUSCRIPT OF APOLLONIUS CURIUS. THE ARGUMENT. Lycus, detained by Circe in her magical dominion, is beloved by a Water Nymph, who"

"-    - Methought I saw     Life swiftly treading over endless space;     And, at her foot-print, but a bygone pace,     The ocean-past"

""Oh where, and oh where     Is my bonny laddie gone?"     Old Song.     One day, as I was going by     That part of Holborn christened High,"

""Fly to the desert, fly with me." - LADY HESTER STANHOPE.     'Twas in the wilds of Lebanon, amongst its barren hills, -     To think upon i"

"Well hast thou cried, departed Burke,     All chivalrous romantic work     Is ended now and past! -     That iron age - which some have though"

"I.     'Twas in that memorable year     France threaten'd to put off in     Flat-bottom'd boats, intending each     To be a British coffin,"

"The lady lay in her bed,     Her couch so warm and soft,     But her sleep was restless and broken still;     For turning often and oft     Fr"

"My temples throb, my pulses boil,         I'm sick of Song and Ode and Ballad -     So Thyrsis, take the midnight oil,         And pour it on"

""I am, Sir,"     "With respects from your humble Servant,"     "BARTHOLOMEW RUTT."         "On Monday they began to hunt." - Chevy Chase."

""Down, down, down, ten thousand fathoms deep."     Count Fathom.     Who does not know that dreadful gulf, where Niagara falls,     Where eag"

"Of all our pains, since man was curst,     I mean of body, not the mental,     To name the worst, among the worst,     The dental sure is trans"

"I saw old Autumn in the misty morn     Stand shadowless like Silence, listening     To silence, for no lonely bird would sing     Into his holl"

""To point a moral." - JOHNSON.     Fairest Lady and Noble, for once on a time,     Condescend to accept, in the humblest of rhyme,     And a"

"Summer is gone on swallows' wings,     And Earth has buried all her flowers:     No more the lark,--the linnet--sings,     But Silence sits in"

"Amongst the sights that Mrs. Bond     Enjoyed yet grieved at more than others,     Were little ducklings in a pond,     Swimming about beside t"

"Full of drink and full of meat,     On our SAVIOUR'S natal day,     CHARITY'S perennial treat;     Thus I heard a Pauper say: -     "Ought no"

"Speaking within compass, as to fabulousness I prefer     Southcote to Northcote.                 PIGROGROMITUS.     One day, or night, no mat"

"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 ha"

"Oh Peace, oh come with me and dwell -     But stop, for there's the bell.     Oh Peace! for thee I go and sit in churches     On Wednesday, wh"

""O breathe not his name!" - Moore.     I.         Thou Great Unknown!     I do not mean Eternity, nor Death,         That vast incog!"

""Twa dogs, that were na thrang at hame,     Forgather'd ance upon a time." - BURNS.     One morn - it was the very morn     September's sport"

"Let Taylor preach upon a morning breezy     How well to rise while nights and larks are flying -     For my part getting up seems not so easy"

"Welcome, dear Heart, and a most kind good-morrow;     The day is gloomy, but our looks shall shine: -     Flowers I have none to give thee, but"

"I heard a gentle maiden, in the spring,     Set her sweet sighs to music, and thus sing:     "Fly through the world, and I will follow thee,"

"I.     'Twas in the year two thousand and one,     A pleasant morning of May,     I sat on the gallows-tree, all alone,     A channting a mer"

""Our Crummie is a dainty cow." - Scotch Song.     On that first Saturday in May,     When Lords and Ladies, great and grand,     Repair to se"

"No popular respect will I omit     To do thee honor on this happy day,     When every loyal lover tasks his wit     His simple truth in studiou"

"Oh happy time! - Art's early days!     When o'er each deed, with sweet self-praise,     Narcissus-like I hung!     When great Rembrandt but lit"

"I.     Oh, when I was a tiny boy,     My days and nights were full of joy,     My mates were blithe and kind! -     No wonder that I sometimes s"

"Ah, sweet, thou little knowest how     I wake and passionate watches keep;     And yet while I address thee now,     Methinks thou smilest in t"

""Resigned, I kissed the rod."     Well! I think it is time to put up!     For it does not accord with my notions,     Wrist, elbow, and chine"

"All you that are too fond of wine,     Or any other stuff,     Take warning by the dismal fate     Of one Lieutenant Luff.     A sober man he"

"(At No. 1, Newgate. Favored by Mr. Wontner.)     O Mary, I believed you true,     And I was blest in so believing;     But till this hour I n"

"Look how the lark soars upward and is gone,     Turning a spirit as he nears the sky!     His voice is heard, but body there is none     To fix"

"It was not in the Winter     Our loving lot was cast;     It was the Time of Roses, -     We plucked them as we passed!     That churlish se"

"Go where the waves run rather Holborn-hilly, And tempest make a soda-water sea, Almost as rough as our rough Piccadilly, And think of me! Go where the"

"Our village, that's to say, not Miss Mitford's village, but our village of Bullock Smithy,     Is come into by an avenue of trees, three oak poll"

"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."

"One widow at a grave will sob     A little while, and weep, and sigh!     If two should meet on such a job,     They'll have a gossip by and by"

""Martin in this has proved himself a very good man!"                  - Boxiana.     I.     How many sing of wars,     Of Greek and Trojan"

"It was a merry company,     And they were just afloat,     When lo! a man, of dwarfish span,     Came up and hailed the boat.     "Good morro"

""I really take it very kind,     This visit, Mrs. Skinner!     I have not seen you such an age -     (The wretch has come to dinner!)     "Y"

"The dead are in their silent graves,     And the dew is cold above,     And the living weep and sigh,     Over dust that once was love.     O"

"O Saw ye not fair Ines?     She's gone into the West,     To dazzle when the sun is down,     And rob the world of rest:     She took our dayl"

"There's a murmur in the air,     And noise in every street -     The murmur of many tongues,     The noise of numerous feet -     While roun"