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
spring dust wings
What joy have I in June's return? My feet are parched-my eyeballs burn, I scent no flowery gust; But faint the flagging zephyr springs, With dry Macadam on its wings, And turns me 'dust to dust.'
conceited wind people
To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.
spring flower air
Tis like the birthday of the world, When earth was born in bloom; The light is made of many dyes, The air is all perfume: There's crimson buds, and white and blue, The very rainbow showers Have turned to blossoms where they fell, And sown the earth with flowers.
sympathy condolences heart
How bless'd the heart that has a friend. A sympathizing ear to lend.
sheep gazing gone
Whoe'er has gone thro' London street, Has seen a butcher gazing at his meat, And how he keeps Gloating upon a sheep's Or bullock's personals, as if his own; How he admires his halves And quarters--and his calves, As if in truth upon his own legs grown.
country wenches
The cowslip is a country wench.
college soul nails
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?
sweet jasmine
Jasmine is sweet, and has many loves.
lakes swans swim
There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon.
red corn poppies
Such a blush In the midst of brown was born, Like red poppies grown with corn.
names luck birth
A name, it has more than nominal worth, And belongs to good or bad luck at birth
sweet air swim
Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim!
joy bells able
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.
cutting form short-cuts
Apothegms form a short cut to much knowledge.