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Thomas Hood
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Thomas Hood
Age: 45 †
Born: 1799
Born: May 23
Died: 1845
Died: May 3
Humorist
Poet
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London
England
T. H.
Musics
Bells
Christmas
Laughter
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Spontaneously to God should turn the soul, Like the magnetic needle to the pole But what were that intrinsic virtue worth, Suppose some fellow, with more zeal than knowledge, Fresh from St. Andrew's College, Should nail the conscious needle to the north?
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So mayst thou live, dear! many years, In all the bliss that life endears
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Sweet are the little brooks that run O'er pebbles glancing in the sun, Singing in soothing tones.
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There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy.
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Fuss is the froth of business.
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Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping.
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Oh would I were dead now, Or up in my bed now, To cover my head now, And have a good cry!
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Alas for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun!
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The year's in wane There is nothing adorning The night has no eve, And the day has no morning Cold winter gives warning!
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I love thee - I love thee, 'Tis all that I can say, It is my vision in the night, My dreaming in the day.
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O bed! O bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head.
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There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon.
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Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim!
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The Quaker loves an ample brim, A hat that bows to no salaam And dear the beaver is to him As if it never made a dam.
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No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds - November!
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Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions Yet others of our most romantic schemes, Are something more than fictions.
Thomas Hood
Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn.
Thomas Hood
Whilst breezy waves toss up their silvery spray.
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Ben Battle was a soldier bold, and used to war's alarms, But a cannon-ball took off his legs, so he laid down his arms.
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Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.
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