Thomas Hood's Poetry, by title

• "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
• "Farewell, Life! My Senses Swim"

  Farewell, Life! My senses swim,
  And the world is growing dim;

  18 lines
• "Is There A Bitter Pang For Love Removed"

  Is there a bitter pang for love removed,
  O God! The dead love doth not cost more tears

  23 lines
• "It Was Not In The Winter"

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

  21 lines
• "Let Us Make A Leap, My Dear"

  Let us make a leap, my dear,
  In our love, of many a year,

  16 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
• "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
• "O Lady, Leave Thy Silken Thread"

  O Lady, leave thy silken thread
  And flowery tapestrie:

  24 lines
• "She's Up and Gone, the Graceless Girl"

  She's up and gone, the graceless girl,
  And robb'd my failing years!

  24 lines
• "Sigh On, Sad Heart, for Love's Eclipse"

  Sigh on, sad heart, for Love's eclipse
  And Beauty's fairest queen,

  48 lines
• "Spring It Is Cheery"

  Spring it is cheery,
  Winter is dreary,

  24 lines
• "Still Glides the Gentle Streamlet On"

  Still glides the gentle streamlet on,
  With shifting current new and strange;

  16 lines
• "The Stars Are With The Voyager"

  The stars are with the voyager
  Wherever he may sail;

  16 lines
• "There Is Dew For The Flow'ret"

  There is dew for the flow'ret
  And honey for the bee,

  16 lines
• "Welcome, Dear Heart, and a Most Kind Good-Morrow"

  Welcome, dear Heart, and a most kind good-morrow;
  The day is gloomy, but our looks shall shine:—

  24 lines
• A Lake And A Fairy Boat

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

  12 lines, 6 comments
• 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
• A Retrospective Review

  Oh, when I was a tiny boy,
  My days and nights were full of joy,

  168 lines
• Allegory: A Moral Vehicle

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

  14 lines
• An Address to the Steam Washing Company and Letter of Remonstrance from Bridget Jones to the Noblemen and Gentlemen Forming the Washing Committee

  An Address to the Steam Washing Company
  "For shame—let the linen alone!" M. W. of Windsor.

  221 lines
• Anticipation

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

  37 lines
• Autumn I

  I saw old Autumn in the misty morn
  Stand shadowless like Silence, listening

  66 lines, 1 comment
• Autumn II

  The Autumn skies are flush'd with gold,
  And fair and bright the rivers run;

  12 lines
• Autumn III

  The Autumn is old,
  The sere leaves are flying;—

  20 lines
• Bianca's Dream - A Venetian Story

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

  331 lines
• Birthday Verses

  Good morrow to the golden morning,
  Good morrow to the world's delight—

  12 lines
• Christmas Holidays

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

  14 lines
• 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
• Faithless Nelly Gray

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

  83 lines

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