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Jasmine is sweet, and has many loves.

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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.
Jasmine
Loves
Sweet
Many

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The moon, the moon, so silver and cold, Her fickle temper has oft been told, Now shade--now bright and sunny-- But of all the lunar things that change, The one that shows most fickle and strange, And takes the most eccentric range, Is the moon--so called--of honey!
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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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Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died.
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To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.
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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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The lily is all in white, like a saint, And so is no mate for me.
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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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Well for the drones of the social hive that there are bees of an industrious turn, willing, for an infinitesimal share of the honey, to undertake the labor of its fabrication.
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There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy.
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Oh! God! That bread should be so dear, and flesh and blood so cheap!
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Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!
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There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon.
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O bed! O bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head.
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She stood breast-high amid the corn Clasp'd by the golden light of morn, Like the sweetheart of the sun, Who many a glowing kiss had won.
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Apothegms form a short cut to much knowledge.
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Bells are musics laughter.
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Experience enables me to depose to the comfort and blessing that literature can prove in seasons of sickness and sorrow.
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For my part, getting up seems not so easy By half as lying.
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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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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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