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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.
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Knowledge
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Father of rosy day, No more thy clouds of incense rise But waking flow'rs, At morning hours, Give out their sweets to meet thee in the skies.
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Bells are musics laughter.
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Oh! God! That bread should be so dear, and flesh and blood so cheap!
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Such a blush In the midst of brown was born, Like red poppies grown with corn.
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There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon.
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No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief.
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My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.
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A name, it has more than nominal worth, And belongs to good or bad luck at birth
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I saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence, for no lonely bird would sing Into his hollow ear from woods forlorn, Nor lowly hedge nor solitary thorn- Shaking his languid locks all dewy bright With tangled gossamer that fell by night, Pearling his coronet of golden corn.
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How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky The gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled!
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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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We watch'd her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro.
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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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For my part, getting up seems not so easy By half as lying.
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Well, something must be done for May, The time is drawing nigh-- To figure in the Catalogue, And woo the public eye. Something I must invent and paint But oh my wit is not Like one of those kind substantives That answer Who and What?
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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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There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy.
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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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Jasmine is sweet, and has many loves.
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How bless'd the heart that has a friend. A sympathizing ear to lend.
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