Thomas Hood Quotes
1799–1845 England
Thomas Hood (May 23, 1799 – May 3, 1845) was an English humorist and poet.
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Also known as: Hood, Thomas
75 quotes
But evil is wrought by want of thought,
As well as want of heart.
There's a double beauty whenever a swan
Swims on a lake with her double thereon.
Another tumble! That's his precious nose!
Oh would I were dead now,
Or up in my bed now,
To cover my head now,
And have a good cry!
Seem'd washing his hands with invisible soap
In imperceptible water.
For my part, getting up seems not so easy
By half as lying.
When he is forsaken,
Withered and shaken,
What can an old man do but die?
Spurned by the young, but hugged by the old
To the very verge of the churchyard mould.
A wife who preaches in her gown,
And lectures in her night-dress.
It is not linen you're wearing out,
But human creatures' lives.
And there is ev'n a happiness
That makes the heart afraid!
Dreary rosmarye
That always mourns the dead.
Boughs are daily rifled
By the gusty thieves,
And the book of Nature
Getteth short of leaves.
He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way,
Tormenting himself with his prickles.
Thus she stood amid the stooks,
Praising God with sweetest looks.
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.
Home-made dishes that drive one from home.
Oh, God! that bread should be so dear,
And flesh and blood so cheap!
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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Thomas Hood (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.