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
dawn noon proper sun time
No sun - no moon! / No morn - no noon - / No dawn - no dusk - no proper time of day -
pleasures
For one of the pleasures of having a rout, / Is the pleasure of having it over.
insipid sandwiches
Being used but sisterly salutes to feel, Insipid things - like sandwiches of veal
loving time winter
It was not in the winter / Our loving lot was cast! / It was the time of roses, / We plucked them as we passed!
valentines-day famous-love art
Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!
lakes swans swim
There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon.
yellow gold jewelry
Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold!