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Thomas Hood- Collected Poetical Works

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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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bsp; LOVE LAYS AND LYRICS

  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.

  SALLY SIMPKIN’S LAMENT

 

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