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βEven God's providence
Seeming estranged.β
Seeming estranged.β
βGold! Gold! Gold! Gold!
Bright and yellow, hard and cold.β
Bright and yellow, hard and cold.β
βAnd there is ev'n a happiness
That makes the heart afraid!β
That makes the heart afraid!β
βAlas! for the rarity
Of Christian charity
Under the sun!β
Of Christian charity
Under the sun!β
βThus she stood amid the stooks,
Praising God with sweetest looks.β
Praising God with sweetest looks.β
βA wife who preaches in her gown,
And lectures in her night-dress.β
And lectures in her night-dress.β
βSeem'd washing his hands with invisible soap
In imperceptible water.β
In imperceptible water.β
βThere's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.β
But has its chord in melancholy.β
βWhen he is forsaken,
Withered and shaken,
What can an old man do but die?β
Withered and shaken,
What can an old man do but die?β
βA man that's fond precociously of stirring,
Must be a spoon.β
Must be a spoon.β
βSpurned by the young, but hugged by the old
To the very verge of the churchyard mould.β
To the very verge of the churchyard mould.β
βHe lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way,
Tormenting himself with his prickles.β
Tormenting himself with his prickles.β
βI saw old Autumn in the misty morn
Stand shadowless like Silence, listening
To silence.β
Stand shadowless like Silence, listening
To silence.β
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Thomas Hood on Flowers 5 quotes
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βThe Autumn is old; The sere leaves are flying; He hath gather'd up gold, And now he is dying;β Old age, begin sighing!β
Thomas Hood on Childhood 2 quotes
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βAnd daisy-stars, whose firmament is green.β
Thomas Hood on Tears 2 quotes
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βOne more unfortunate Weary of breath, Rashly importunate, Gone to her death.β
Thomas Hood on Death 2 quotes
βOne more unfortunate Weary of breath, Rashly importunate, Gone to her death!β
Thomas Hood on Bells 2 quotes
βDear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim!β
Thomas Hood on Roses 2 quotes
βIt was not in the winter Our loving lot was cast: It was the time of roses We pluck'd them as we pass'd.β
Thomas Hood on Trees 2 quotes
βI remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky.β
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Pauline Newman on Thomas Hood
βThe things we liked most of course were the things that more or less selected or symbolized our own feelings of conditions and life in general. For example, I recall that we liked Thomas Hood's "The Sound of the ship" Now, nothing could come closer to the way we felt than that particular poem. We also read and managed an interest in that other one, "The Bridge of Sighs" also by Thomas Hood. Later, we found "The Masque of Anarchy" by Shelley, and of course in addition to that there were the Jewish poets, like Rosenfeld and Edelshtat. They were magnificent in their writing, in their poetry depicting the life of the people in the shop.β
About Thomas Hood
Thomas Hood (May 23, 1799 β May 3, 1845) was an English humorist and poet.