by Thomas Hood
A MORNING THOUGHT.
NO!
TO MY DAUGHTER ON HER BIRTHDAY.
EPIGRAM ON MRS. PARKES’S PAMPHLET
THE FORGE.
SONNET: THE WORLD IS WITH ME
THE FLOWER
EPIGRAM: ON THE ART UNIONS
A BLACK JOB.
ON LIEUTENANT EYRE’S NARRATIVE OF THE DISASTERS AT CABUL
EPIGRAM ON A LATE CATTLE-SHOW IN SMITHFIELD
MORE HULLAH-BALOO
ON A CERTAIN LOCALITY
LAYING DOWN THE LAW
EPIGRAM: THE SUPERIORITY OF MACHINERY
A CUSTOM-HOUSE BREEZE
PARTY SPIRIT
ETCHING MORALISED
A REFLECTION
SPRING
A FIRST ATTEMPT IN RHYME
EPIGRAM ON THE CHINESE TREATY
THE SEASON
THE UNIVERSITY FEUD
ON THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY
THE LEE SHORE
EPIGRAM: ON THE DEPRECIATED MONEY
THE TURTLES
EPIGRAM: THREE TRAITORS
MISCELLANEOUS UNCOLLECTED POEMS (1821-1845)
TO HOPE.
ODE TO DR. KITCHENER.
TO A CRITIC
TO CELIA.
FARE THEE WELL
MIDNIGHT.
TO A SLEEPING CHILD.
SONNET WRITTEN IN KEATS’S ‘ENDYMION’
EPIGRAM WRITTEN ON A PICTURE IN THE EXHIBITION, CALLED ‘THE DOUBTFUL SNEEZE’
SONG. O LADY, LEAVE THY SILKEN THREAD.
THE TWO SWANS.
ODE ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF CLAPHAM ACADEMY.
ADDRESS TO MR. CROSS, OF EXETER ‘CHANGE, ON THE DEATH OF THE ELEPHANT
IN MEMORIAM
ODE TO THE LATE LORD MAYOR, ON PUBLICATION OF HIS ‘VISIT TO OXFORD’
ODE TO EDWARD GIBBON WAKEFIELD, ESQ.
VAUXHALL
TO MR. WRENCH AT THE ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE
TO MISS KELLY OF THE ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE
HINTS TO PAUL PRY
TO THOMAS BISH, ESQ.
TIME, HOPE, AND MEMORY
FLOWERS
I LOVE THEE
BALLAD: IT WAS NOT IN THE WINTER
ELEGY ON DAVID LAING, ESQ.
ODE
A LAMENT FOR THE DECLINE OF CHIVALRY
ODE
STANZAS TO TOM WOODGATE, OF HASTINGS
THE LOGICIANS
DEATH IN THE KITCHEN
EPISTLE TO MISS CHARLOTTE REYNOLDS
ON THE DEATH OF THE GIRAFFE
ON THE REMOVAL OF A MENAGERIE
BIRTHDAY VERSES
THE FAREWELL
ON A PICTURE OF HERO AND LEANDER
FOR THE FOURTEENTH OF FEBRUARY
A BUNCH OF FORGET-ME-NOTS
THE POET’S PORTION
I’Μ NOT A SINGLE MAN
PLAYING AT SOLDIERS
THE SWEETS OF YOUTH
ODE TO N. A. VIGORS, ESQ.
THE PAINTER PUZZLED
THE DEATH-BED
ANTICIPATION
THE STAGE-STRUCK HERO
ODE TO JOSEPH HUME, ESQ., M.P.
THE BALLAD
TO A CHILD EMBRACING HIS MOTHER
EPIGRAM ON A PICTURE
ANSWER TO PAUPER
JARVIS AND MRS. COPE
MISS FANNY’S FAREWELL FLOWERS
THE CHINA-MENDER
ODE TO SPENCER PERCEVAL, ESQ., M.P.
ON THE DEATH OF SIR WALTER SCOTT
A PUBLIC DINNER
ODE TO ADMIRAL LORD GAMBIER, G.C.B.
THE CIGAR
A CHARITY SERMON
A HAPPY NEW YEAR!
ODE TO MISS KELLY
ODE TO SIR ANDREW AGNEW, BART.
ODE TO J. S. BUCKINGHAM, ESQ., M.P.
THE UNITED FAMILY
SONNET TO OCEAN
SONNET. — THINK SWEETEST
LINES ON SEEING MY WIFE AND TWO CHILDREN SLEEPING IN THE SAME CHAMBER
POETRY, PROSE, AND WORSE
SONG FOR THE NINETEENTH
A TOAST
DRINKING SONG
DOMESTIC POEMS
HYMENEAL RETROSPECTIONS
A PARENTAL ODE TO MY SON, AGED THREE YEARS
A SERENADE
JOHN JONES
ODE TO MESSRS. GREEN, HOLLOND, AND MONCK MASON
THE BLUE BOAR
ODE TO DOCTOR HAHNEMANN
THE DEAD ROBBERY
THE DESERT-BORN
AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS
LOVE LANE
ODE TO RAE WILSON, ESQ.
NAPOLEON’S MIDNIGHT REVIEW
HIT OR MISS
THE OLD POLER’S WARNING
STANZAS COMPOSED IN A SHOWER-BATH
CLUBS TURNED UP BY A FEMALE HAND
A RISE AT THE FATHER OF ANGLING
THE FORLORN SHEPHERD’S COMPLAINT
MORNING MEDITATIONS
THE BEADLE’S ANNUAL ADDRESS
A TABLE OF ERRATA
ALL ROUND MY HAT
BEN BLUFF
A PLAIN DIRECTION
THE BACHELOR’S DREAM
RURAL FELICITY
A FLYING VISIT
THE DOVES AND THE CROWS
THE DOCTOR
THE VISION
THE ASSISTANT DRAPERS’ PETITION
LORD DURHAM’S RETURN
VERSES MISTAKEN FOR AN INCENDIARY SONG
THE GREEN MAN
POMPEY’S GHOST
AN OPEN QUESTION
MISS KILMANSEGG AND HER PRECIOUS LEG.
ON A LATE IMMERSION
A TALE OF A TRUMPET
A BULL
A REFLECTION
ON A ROYAL DEMISE
UP THE RHINE
THE PURSUIT OF LETTERS
ON A NATIVE SINGER
TO C. DICKENS, ESQ.
NIGHT-SONG — WRITTEN AT SEA
THE ELM TREE
RONDEAU
EPIGRAM ON A CERTAIN HERO AND HEROINE
ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE HAYMARKET THEATRE
SONNET. MY HEART IS SICK WITH LONGING, THO’ I FEED
A DROP OF GIN
THE SONG OF THE SHIRT
THE PAUPER’S CHRISTMAS CAROL
THE MARY
THE HAUNTED HOUSE
A DISCOVERY IN ASTRONOMY
A SONG FOR THE MILLION
SKIPPING. A MYSTERY
A TALE OF TEMPER
EPIGRAM ON THE ARRANGEMENT OF THE STATUES IN TRAFALGAR SQUARE
REFLECTIONS ON NEW YEAR’S DAY
THE LADY’S DREAM
MAGNETIC MUSINGS
A DREAM
EPIGRAM
THE KEY
THE CAPTAIN’S COW
THE WORKHOUSE CLOCK
AN EXPLANATION
THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS
EPIGRAM ON DR. ROBERT ELLIOT OF CAMBERWELL.
EPIGRAM ON A CERTAIN EQUESTRIAN STATUE
EPIGRAM ON THE NEW HALF-FARTHINGS
EPIGRAM. CHARM’D WITH A DRINK WHICH HIGHLANDERS COMPOSE
THE LAY OF THE LABOURER
SONNET TO A SONNET
EPIGRAM ON HER MAJESTY’S VISIT TO THE CITY
EPIGRAM ON THE QUEEN’S VISIT TO THE CITY
EPIGRAM
THE SAUSAGE-MAKER’S GHOST
THE LARK AND THE ROOK
SUGGESTIONS BY STEAM
ANACREONTIC BY A FOOTMAN
EPIGRAM. A LORD BOUGHT OF LATE AN OUTLANDISH ESTATE
STANZAS
THE SURPLICE QUESTION
EPIGRAM. ‘TIS SAID OF LORD B., NONE IS KEENER THAN HE
BALLAD. THERE WAS A FAIRY LIVED IN A WELL
TO MY DEAR MARIANNE
SONG. THE SUMMER — THE SUMMER
WRITTEN ON THE BACK OF THE FOREGOING
FRAGMENT
SERENADE
FALSE POETS AND TRUE
SONNET. LOVE, I AM JEALOUS OF A WORTHLESS MAN
LOVE, SEE THY LOVER
LEAR
STANZAS
SONG. THERE IS DEW FOR THE FLOW’RET
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VERSES IN AN ALBUM
TO A FALSE FRIEND
STANZAS
SONG TO MY WIFE
SUGGESTED BY A BUNCH OF ENGLISH GRAPES
LINES
SONG. MY MOTHER BIDS ME SPEND MY SMILES
YOUTH AND AGE
SIR JOHN BOWRING
TO HENRIETTA
QUEEN MAB
EPIGRAM. MY HEART’S WOUND UP JUST LIKE A WATCH
EPIGRAM. AS HUMAN FASHIONS CHANGE ABOUT
TO MINERVA
FRAGMENT
GUIDO AND MARINA
FRAGMENTS
LAMIA
JUVENILIA
THE BANDIT
APPENDIX: J. H. REYNOLDS’S CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ‘ODES AND ADDRESSES TO GREAT PEOPLE’ (1825)
ODE TO MR. M’ADAM
ADDRESS TO MR. DYMOKE
ADDRESS TO SYLVANUS URBAN, ESQ.
ADDRESS TO R. W. ELLISTON, ESQUIRE
AN ADDRESS TO THE VERY REVEREND JOHN
CHAPTER OF WESTMINSTER.
LINES TO MISS F. KEMBLE
LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
A-D E-H I-L M-O P-S T-V W-Z
A BLACK JOB.
A BLOW-UP
A BULL
A BUNCH OF FORGET-ME-NOTS
A BUTCHER.
A CHARITY SERMON
A CUSTOM-HOUSE BREEZE
A DECLARATION
A DISCOVERY IN ASTRONOMY
A DREAM
A DROP OF GIN
A FAIRY TALE.
A FEW LINES ON COMPLETING FORTY-SEVEN
A FIRST ATTEMPT IN RHYME
A FLYING VISIT
A FRIENDLY ADDRESS TO MRS. FRY IN NEWGATE.
A GOOD DIRECTION
A HAPPY NEW YEAR!
A LAMENT FOR THE DECLINE OF CHIVALRY
A LAY OF REAL LIFE
A LEGEND OF NAVARRE.
A MORNING THOUGHT.
A NOCTURNAL SKETCH
A PARENTAL ODE TO MY SON, AGED THREE YEARS
A PARTHIAN GLANCE.
A PLAIN DIRECTION
A PUBLIC DINNER
A RECIPE FOR CIVILIZATION.
A REFLECTION
A REFLECTION
A REPORT FROM BELOW
A RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW.
A RISE AT THE FATHER OF ANGLING
A SAILOR’S APOLOGY FOR BOW-LEGS.
A SERENADE
A SINGULAR EXHIBITION AT SOMERSET HOUSE
A SONG FOR THE MILLION
A STORM AT HASTINGS
A TABLE OF ERRATA
A TALE OF A TRUMPET
A TALE OF TEMPER
A TOAST
A TRUE STORY
A TRUE STORY.
A VALENTINE
A VALENTINE.
A WATERLOO BALLAD
A WINTER NOSEGAY.
ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE HAYMARKET THEATRE
ADDRESS TO MARIA DARLINGTON ON HER RETURN TO THE STAGE.
ADDRESS TO MR. CROSS, OF EXETER ‘CHANGE, ON THE DEATH OF THE ELEPHANT
ADDRESS TO MR. DYMOKE
ADDRESS TO R. W. ELLISTON, ESQUIRE
ADDRESS TO SYLVANUS URBAN, ESQ.
ADVERTISEMENT.
AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS
ALL ROUND MY HAT
AN ADDRESS TO THE STEAM WASHING COMPANY.
AN ADDRESS TO THE VERY REVEREND JOHN
AN ANCIENT CONCERT
AN EXPLANATION
AN OPEN QUESTION
ANACREONTIC BY A FOOTMAN
ANACREONTIC FOR THE NEW YEAR.
ANSWER TO PAUPER
ANTICIPATION
AS IT FELL UPON A DAY
AUTUMN
AUTUMN.
BACKING THE FAVOURITE.
BAILEY BALLADS
BALLAD. SHE’S UP AND GONE, THE GRACELESS GIRL.
BALLAD. SIGH ON, SAD HEART.
BALLAD. SPRING IT IS CHEERY.
BALLAD. THERE WAS A FAIRY LIVED IN A WELL
BALLAD: IT WAS NOT IN THE WINTER
BEN BLUFF
BIANCA’S DREAM.
BIRTHDAY VERSES
CHAPTER OF WESTMINSTER.
CLUBS TURNED UP BY A FEMALE HAND
COCKLE v. CACKLE
CONVEYANCING
CRANIOLOGY.
DEATH IN THE KITCHEN
DEATH.
DEATH’S RAMBLE.
DECEMBER AND MAY.
DEDICATION TO THE REVIEWERS.
DOG-GREL VERSES, BY A POOR BLIND
DOMESTIC ASIDES; OR,TRUTH IN PARENTHESES
DOMESTIC DIDACTICS BY AN OLD SERVANT
DOMESTIC POEMS
DON’T YOU SMELL FIRE?
DRINKING SONG
ELEGY ON DAVID LAING, ESQ.
EPICUREAN REMINISCENCES OF A SENTIMENTALIST
EPIGRAM
EPIGRAM
EPIGRAM
EPIGRAM ON A CERTAIN EQUESTRIAN STATUE
EPIGRAM ON A CERTAIN HERO AND HEROINE
EPIGRAM ON A LATE CATTLE-SHOW IN SMITHFIELD
EPIGRAM ON A PICTURE
EPIGRAM ON DR. ROBERT ELLIOT OF CAMBERWELL.
EPIGRAM ON HER MAJESTY’S VISIT TO THE CITY
EPIGRAM ON MRS. PARKES’S PAMPHLET
EPIGRAM ON THE ARRANGEMENT OF THE STATUES IN TRAFALGAR SQUARE
EPIGRAM ON THE CHINESE TREATY
EPIGRAM ON THE NEW HALF-FARTHINGS
EPIGRAM ON THE QUEEN’S VISIT TO THE CITY
EPIGRAM WRITTEN ON A PICTURE IN THE EXHIBITION, CALLED ‘THE DOUBTFUL SNEEZE’
EPIGRAM. ‘TIS SAID OF LORD B., NONE IS KEENER THAN HE
EPIGRAM. A LORD BOUGHT OF LATE AN OUTLANDISH ESTATE
EPIGRAM. AS HUMAN FASHIONS CHANGE ABOUT
EPIGRAM. CHARM’D WITH A DRINK WHICH HIGHLANDERS COMPOSE
EPIGRAM. MY HEART’S WOUND UP JUST LIKE A WATCH
EPIGRAM: ON THE ART UNIONS
EPIGRAM: ON THE DEPRECIATED MONEY
EPIGRAM: THE SUPERIORITY OF MACHINERY
EPIGRAM: THREE TRAITORS
EPIGRAMS COMPOSED ON READING A DIARY LATELY PUBLISHED
EPISTLE TO MISS CHARLOTTE REYNOLDS
EQUESTRIAN COURTSHIP.
ETCHING MORALISED
FAIR INES.
FAITHLESS NELLY GRAY.
FAITHLESS SALLY BROWN.
FALSE POETS AND TRUE
FARE THEE WELL
FLOWERS
FOR THE FOURTEENTH OF FEBRUARY
FRAGMENT
FRAGMENT
FRAGMENTS
FRENCH AND ENGLISH
FUGITIVE LINES ON PAWNING MY WATCH
GOG AND MAGOG
GUIDO AND MARINA
HERO AND LEANDER.
HINTS TO PAUL PRY
HIT OR MISS
HUGGINS AND DUGGINS
HYMENEAL RETROSPECTIONS
HYMN TO THE SUN.
I CANNOT BEAR A GUN
I LOVE THEE
I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER.
I’M GOING TO BOMBAY
I’M NOT A SINGLE MAN
I’Μ NOT A SINGLE MAN
IN MEMORIAM
JACK HALL.
JARVIS AND MRS. COPE
JOHN DAY
JOHN JONES
JOHN TROT.
LAMIA
LAYING DOWN THE LAW
LEAR
LETTER OF REMONSTRANCE
LIEUTENANT LUFF.
LINES
LINES ON SEEING MY WIFE AND TWO CHILDREN SLEEPING IN THE SAME CHAMBER
LINES ON THE CELEBRATION OF PEACE
LINES TO A FRIEND AT COBHAM
LINES TO A LADY ON HER DEPARTURE FOR INDIA
LINES TO MARY
LINES TO MISS F. KEMBLE
LITERARY AND LITERAL
LITERARY REMINISCENCES
LITTLE BOY AT THE NORE LOQUITUR
LITTLE O’P. — AN AFRICAN FACT
LORD DURHAM’S RETURN
LOVE AND LUNACY
LOVE HAS NOT EYES
LOVE LANE
LOVE LANGUAGE OF A MERRY YOUNG SOLDIER
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LOVE, SEE THY LOVER
LOVE.
LYCUS THE CENTAUR.
M.P. FOR GALWAY.
MAGNETIC MUSINGS
MARY’S GHOST.
MIDNIGHT.
MINOR POEMS.
MISS FANNY’S FAREWELL FLOWERS
MISS KILMANSEGG AND HER PRECIOUS LEG.
MORAL REFLECTIONS ON THE CROSS OF ST. PAUL’S.
MORAL.
MORE HULLAH-BALOO
MORNING MEDITATIONS
MY SON AND HEIR
NAPOLEON’S MIDNIGHT REVIEW
NIGHT-SONG — WRITTEN AT SEA
NO!
NO. II
NO. III
NUMBER ONE
ODE
ODE
ODE FOR ST. CECILIA’S EVE
ODE FOR THE NINTH OF NOVEMBER
ODE ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF CLAPHAM ACADEMY.
ODE TO ADMIRAL LORD GAMBIER, G.C.B.
ODE TO CAPTAIN PARRY
ODE TO DOCTOR HAHNEMANN
ODE TO DR. KITCHENER.
ODE TO EDWARD GIBBON WAKEFIELD, ESQ.
ODE TO H. BODKIN, ESQ.
ODE TO J. S. BUCKINGHAM, ESQ., M.P.
ODE TO JOSEPH GRIMALDI, SENIOR.
ODE TO JOSEPH HUME, ESQ., M.P.
ODE TO M. BRUNEL
ODE TO MADAME HENGLER
ODE TO MELANCHOLY.
ODE TO MESSRS. GREEN, HOLLOND, AND MONCK MASON
ODE TO MISS KELLY
ODE TO MR. GRAHAM, THE AERONAUT.
ODE TO MR. M’ADAM
ODE TO MR. MALTHUS
ODE TO N. A. VIGORS, ESQ.
ODE TO PEACE
ODE TO PERRY, THE INVENTOR OF THE PATENT PERRYAN PEN
ODE TO RAE WILSON, ESQ.
ODE TO RICHARD MARTIN, ESQ.,
ODE TO SIR ANDREW AGNEW, BART.
ODE TO SPENCER PERCEVAL, ESQ., M.P.
ODE TO ST. SWITHIN
ODE TO THE ADVOCATES FOR THE REMOVAL OF SMITHFIELD MARKET
ODE TO THE CAMELEOPARD.
ODE TO THE GREAT UNKNOWN.
ODE TO THE LATE LORD MAYOR, ON PUBLICATION OF HIS ‘VISIT TO OXFORD’
ODE TO THE MOON.
ODE TO W. KITCHENER, M.D.
ODE.
ON A CERTAIN LOCALITY
ON A LATE IMMERSION
ON A NATIVE SINGER
ON A PICTURE OF HERO AND LEANDER
ON A ROYAL DEMISE
ON LIEUTENANT EYRE’S NARRATIVE OF THE DISASTERS AT CABUL
ON MISTRESS NICELY, A PATTERN FOR HOUSEKEEPERS.
ON RECEIVING A GIFT.
ON THE DEATH OF SIR WALTER SCOTT
ON THE DEATH OF THE GIRAFFE
ON THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY
ON THE REMOVAL OF A MENAGERIE
OUR LADY’S CHAPEL
OUR VILLAGE. — BY A VILLAGER
OVER THE WAY
PAIN IN A PLEASURE-BOAT
PAIR’D, NOT MATCH’D
PARTY SPIRIT
PLAY ON, YE TIMID RABBITS
PLAYING AT SOLDIERS
POEM, — FROM THE POLISH
POEMS, BY A POOR GENTLEMAN
POETRY, PROSE, AND WORSE
POMPEY’S GHOST
QUEEN MAB
REFLECTIONS ON NEW YEAR’S DAY
REMONSTRATORY ODE, FROM THE ELEPHANT AT EXETER CHANGE, TO MR. MATHEWS AT THE ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE.
RONDEAU
RONDEAU
RURAL FELICITY
RUTH.