Thomas Hood
Thomas Hood
Thomas Hoodwas an English poet, author and humourist, best known for poems such as "The Bridge of Sighs" and "The Song of the Shirt". Hood wrote regularly for The London Magazine, the Athenaeum, and Punch. He later published a magazine largely consisting of his own works. Hood, never robust, lapsed into invalidism by the age of 41 and died at the age of 45. William Michael Rossetti in 1903 called him "the finest English poet" between the generations of Shelley...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth23 May 1799
garden grow organic tomatoes
I can't do as much as I used to, but I can still grow a little corn, tomatoes and some cucumbers in my organic garden out back.
catch crooked dropped heed king nor pins queen sea
If you were queen of bloaters / And I were king of soles, / The sea we'd wag our fins in. / Nor heed the crooked pins in / The water, dropped by boaters / To catch our heedless joles.
gone lift weary
One more Unfortunate, / Weary of breath, / Rashly importunate, / Gone to her death. Take her up tenderly, / Lift her with care; / Fashioned so slenderly, / Young, and so fair!
dying fears hopes sleeping
Our very hopes belied our fears, / Our fears our hopes belied - / We thought her dying when she slept, / And sleeping when she died!
fingers heavy needle sat thread weary woman
With fingers weary and worn, / With eyelids heavy and red, / A woman sat in unwomanly rags, / Plying her needle and thread - / Stitch! stitch! stitch!
flower butterfly autumn
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds - November!
house littles sun
I remember, I remember, The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn.
valentines-day famous-love art
Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!
mind wire brass
Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.
horse fear failure
Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping.
coquetry coquette champagne
Coquetry is the champagne of love.
insomnia heaven earth
O bed! O bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head.
teamwork honey bees
When was ever honey made with one bee in a hive?
new-year regret adversity
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.