Thomas Hood's Poetry, by popularity

• Ode to Rae Wilson Esq.

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

  540 lines
• The Lee Shore

  Sleet! and hail! and thunder!
  And ye winds that rave,

  29 lines
• In Rotterdam

  I gaze upon a city,—
  A city new and strange,—

  81 lines
• The Poet's Portion

  What is a mine—a treasury—a dower—
  A magic talisman of mighty power?

  30 lines
• Lines On Seeing My Wife And Two Children Sleeping In The Same Chamber

  And has the earth lost its so spacious round,
  The sky its blue circumference above,

  13 lines
• The Lady's Dream

  The lady lay in her bed,
  Her couch so warm and soft,

  118 lines
• Time, Hope And Memory

  I heard a gentle maiden, in the spring,
  Set her sweet sighs to music, and thus sing:

  20 lines
• Ode To The Moon

  Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go
  Over those hoary crests, divinely led!—

  107 lines
• Ode to W. Kitchener, M.D.

  Author of The Cook's Oracle, Observations on Vocal Music, The Art of Invigorating and Prolonging Life, Practical Observations on Telesco

  221 lines
• The Lay of the Laborer

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

  109 lines
• The Pauper's Christmas Carol

  Full of drink and full of meat,
  On our SAVIOUR'S natal day,

  69 lines
• Verses Written In An Album

  Far above the hollow
  Tempest, and its moan,

  14 lines
• The Mary (A Sea-Side Sketch)

  Lov'st thou not, Alice, with the early tide
  To see the hardy Fisher hoist his mast,

  98 lines
• The Two Peacocks of Bedfont

  Alas! That breathing Vanity should go
  Where Pride is buried,—like its very ghost,

  311 lines
• Ode On A Distant Prospect Of Clapham Academy

  Ah me! those old familiar bounds!
  That classic house, those classic grounds

  197 lines
• Hymn to the Sun

  Giver of glowing light!
  Though but a god of other days,

  25 lines
• To A Child Embracing His Mother

  Love thy mother, little one!
  Kiss and clasp her neck again,—

  25 lines
• The Lament of Toby, The Learned Pig

  Oh, heavy day! oh, day of woe!
  To misery a poster,

  93 lines
• The Water Lady

  Alas, the moon should ever beam
  To show what man should never see!—

  24 lines
• The Departure of Summer

  Summer is gone on swallows' wings,
  And Earth has buried all her flowers:

  159 lines
• I Love Thee

  I love thee—I love thee!
  'Tis all that I can say;—

  24 lines
• To A Cold Beauty

  Lady, wouldst thou heiress be
  To Winters cold and cruel part?

  24 lines
• To An Absentee

  O'er hill, and dale, and distant sea,
  Through all the miles that stretch between,

  16 lines
• To Hope

  Oh! take, young Seraph, take thy harp,
  And play to me so cheerily;

  62 lines
• The Exile

  The swallow with summer
  Will wing o'er the seas,

  24 lines
• Bianca's Dream - A Venetian Story

  BIANCA!—fair Bianca!—who could dwell
  With safety on her dark and hazel gaze,

  331 lines
• The Forsaken

  The dead are in their silent graves,
  And the dew is cold above,

  20 lines
• Ode to Melancholy

  Come, let us set our careful breasts,
  Like Philomel, against the thorn,

  129 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
• Ode to the Great Unknown

  "O breathe not his name!"—Moore.
  

  342 lines

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