Thomas Hood's Poetry, by first line

• “That Flesh is Grass is Now as Clear as Day...”

  “That flesh is grass is now as clear as day,
  To any but the merest purblind pup,

  4 lines
• Miss Killmansegg And Her Precious Leg. A Legend

  “Who hath not felt that breath in the air,
  A perfume and freshness strange and rare,

  7 lines
• Past and Present

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

  32 lines, 2 comments
• The Bridge of Sighs

  One more Unfortunate
  Weary of breath

  102 lines, 7 comments
• Death

  It is not death, that sometime in a sigh
  This eloquent breath shall take its speechless flight;

  14 lines, 1 comment
• Fair Ines

  O saw ye not fair Ines?
  She’s gone into the West,

  48 lines
• Time of Roses

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

  12 lines, 1 comment
• Ruth

  She stood breast-high amid the corn,
  Clasp’d by the golden light of morn,

  20 lines
• A Lake And A Fairy Boat

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

  12 lines, 6 comments
• Flowers

  I will not have the mad Clytie,
  Whose head is turned by the sun;

  24 lines
• The Dream of Eugene Aram

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

  216 lines
• The world is with me

  The world is with me, and its many cares,
  Its woes--its wants--the anxious hopes and fears

  14 lines
• On Mistress Nicely, a Pattern for Housekeepers

  She was a woman peerless in her station,
  With household virtues wedded to her name;

  14 lines
• Allegory: A Moral Vehicle

  I had a gig-horse, and I called him Pleasure
  Because on Sundays for a little jaunt

  14 lines
• Christmas Holidays

  Along the Woodford road there comes a noise
  Of wheels, and Mr. Rounding's neat post-chaise

  14 lines
• Gold!

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

  16 lines
• The Sun Was Slumbering in the West

  The sun was slumbering in the West,
  My daily labors past;

  32 lines
• The Cigar

  Some sigh for this and that,
  My wishes don't go far;

  53 lines
• The Workhouse Clock

  An Allegory
  

  96 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
• The Sea of Death

  ——Methought I saw
  Life swiftly treading over endless space;

  38 lines
• Ode to Captain Paery

  "By the North Pole, I do challenge thee!" From "Love's Labour's Lost."
  

  320 lines
• Anticipation

  "Coming events cast their shadow before."
  I had a vision in the summer light—

  37 lines
• Ode to the Great Unknown

  "O breathe not his name!"—Moore.
  

  342 lines
• The Key (A Moorish Romance)

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

  174 lines
• Ode to Mr. Graham, the Aeronaut

  "Up with me!—up with me into the sky!"
  WORDSWORTH, from "On a Lark."

  370 lines
• The Dream Fairy

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

  24 lines
• Lear

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

  15 lines
• The Lay of the Laborer

  A spade! a rake! a hoe!
  A pickaxe, or a bill!

  109 lines
• Ode to Rae Wilson Esq.

  A WANDERER, Wilson, from my native land,
  Remote, O Rae, from godliness and thee,

  540 lines

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