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
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!
dawn noon proper sun time
No sun - no moon! / No morn - no noon - / No dawn - no dusk - no proper time of day -
bright gold hard
Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold.
leave second
For here I leave my second leg, / And the Forty-second Foot.
hollow marry voice
A hollow voice is all I have / But this I tell you plain, / Marry come up! - you marry, Ma'am, / And I'll come up again.
convenient cook plan saves
It's very convenient and saves me from having to plan and cook meals.
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!
valentines-day famous-love art
Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!
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.
conceited wind people
To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.
lakes swans swim
There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon.