Thomas Hood

I lived from 1799-1845. I was from England, and am in the English category.

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• To A False Friend

  Our hands have met, but not our hearts;
  Our hands will never meet again.

  15 lines, 4 comments
• Silence

  There is a silence where hath been no sound,
  There is a silence where no sound may be,

  14 lines
• A Parental Ode to My Son, Aged 3 Years and 5 months

  Thou happy, happy elf!
  (But stop,—first let me kiss away that tear—)

  61 lines, 1 comment
• No!

  No sun--no moon!
  No morn--no noon!

  24 lines, 1 comment
• Sonnet to Ocean

  Shall I rebuke thee, Ocean, my old love,
  That once, in rage, with the wild winds at strife,

  14 lines
• "My Heart Is Sick With Longing"

  My heart is sick with longing, tho' I feed
  On hope; Time goes with such a heavy pace

  14 lines
• Past and Present

  I remember, I remember
  The house where I was born,

  32 lines, 2 comments
• Midnight

  Unfathomable Night! how dost thou sweep
  Over the flooded earth, and darkly hide

  14 lines
• A Lake And A Fairy Boat

  A lake and a fairy boat
  To sail in the moonlight clear, -

  12 lines, 6 comments
• The Dream of Eugene Aram

  'Twas in the prime of summer-time
  An evening calm and cool,

  216 lines
• Lear

  A poor old king, with sorrow for my crown,
  Throned upon straw, and mantled with the wind—

  15 lines
• To A Sleeping Child

  Oh, 'tis a touching thing, to make one weep,—
  A tender infant with its curtain'd eye,

  35 lines
• "Love, Dearest Lady, Such As I Would Speak"

  Love, dearest Lady, such as I would speak,
  Lives not within the humor of the eye;—

  14 lines
• Sonnet For the 14th of February

  No popular respect will I omit
  To do thee honor on this happy day,

  14 lines
• Sonnet (Written in Keats' "Endymion")

  I saw pale Dian, sitting by the brink
  Of silver falls, the overflow of fountains

  14 lines
• Serenade

  Ah, sweet, thou little knowest how
  I wake and passionate watches keep;

  16 lines
• The Dream Fairy

  A little fairy comes at night,
  Her eyes are blue, her hair is brown’

  24 lines
• Sonnet to My Wife

  The curse of Adam, the old curse of all,
  Though I inherit in this feverish life

  14 lines
• Sonnet (Written in a Volume of Shakespeare)

  How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky
  The gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled!

  16 lines
• Faithless Sally Brown

  Young Ben he was a nice young man,
        A carpenter by trade;

  83 lines, 4 comments
• Time of Roses

  It was not in the Winter
  Our loving lot was cast;

  12 lines, 1 comment
• False Poets And True (To Wordsworth)

  Look how the lark soars upward and is gone,
  Turning a spirit as he nears the sky!

  14 lines
• To Fancy

  Most delicate Ariel! submissive thing,
  Won by the mind's high magic to its hest—

  14 lines
• "By Eve'ry Sweet Tradition of True Hearts"

  By ev'ry sweet tradition of true hearts,
  Graven by Time, in love with his own lore;

  14 lines
• To An Enthusiast

  Young ardent soul, graced with fair Nature's truth,
  Spring warmth of heart, and fervency of mind,

  14 lines
• The Bridge of Sighs

  One more Unfortunate
  Weary of breath

  102 lines, 7 comments
• Sonnet On Receiving A Gift

  Look how the golden ocean shines above
  Its pebbly stones, and magnifies their girth;

  14 lines
• The Plea Of The Midsummer Fairies

  'Twas in that mellow season of the year
  When the hot sun singes the yellow leaves

  1634 lines
• Faithless Nelly Gray

  Ben Battle was a soldier bold,
  And used to war's alarms;

  83 lines
• Lycus the Centaur

  FROM AN UNROLLED MANUSCRIPT OF APOLLONIUS CURIUS
  

  462 lines

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