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Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died.

Thomas Hood

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Thomas Hood
Age: 45 †
Born: 1799
Born: May 23
Died: 1845
Died: May 3
Humorist
Poet
Writer
London
England
T. H.
Thought
Slept
Sleeping
Hopes
Fears
Died
Dying
Sleep
Fear

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And ye, who have met with Adversity's blast, And been bow'd to the earth by its fury To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently pass'd Were as harsh as a prejudiced jury - Still, fill to the Future! and join in our chime, The regrets of remembrance to cozen, And having obtained a New Trial of Time, Shout in hopes of a kindlier dozen.
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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 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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A man that's fond precociously of stirring , :: Must be a spoon.
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O bed! O bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head.
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To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.
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O men with sisters dear, O men with mothers and wives, It is not linen you 're wearing out, But human creatures' lives!
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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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With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.
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How bless'd the heart that has a friend. A sympathizing ear to lend.
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Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping.
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No sun, no moon, no morn, no noon, No dawn, no dusk, no proper time of day, . . . . . . No road, no street, no t' other side the way, . . . . . . No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no buds.
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My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.
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There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon.
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While the steeples are loud in their joy, To the tune of the bells' ring-a-ding, Let us chime in a peal, one and all, For we all should be able to sing Hullah baloo.
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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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When he is forsaken, Withered and shaken, What can an old man do but die?
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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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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.
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