The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood: With Some Account of the Author. In Four Volumes, Volume 4Little, Brown, 1863 |
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... Lady at Sea ... • The Stag - Eyed Lady . A Legend of Navarre . A True Story .. ... The Monkey - Martyr . Craniology .... A Parthian Glance .. A Butcher .. • • • 48 49 • 51 54 • 60 61 66 69 75 84 92 • • 98 102 105 " Don't you smell fire ...
... Lady at Sea ... • The Stag - Eyed Lady . A Legend of Navarre . A True Story .. ... The Monkey - Martyr . Craniology .... A Parthian Glance .. A Butcher .. • • • 48 49 • 51 54 • 60 61 66 69 75 84 92 • • 98 102 105 " Don't you smell fire ...
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... Lady's Chapel ....... • Love Language of a Merry Young Soldier . Town and Country .. Lament for the Decline of Chivalry . The Green Man . More Hullahbaloo . • Page 107 109 114 116 121 123 127 128 139 143 • 145 149 • 153 160 ODES AND ...
... Lady's Chapel ....... • Love Language of a Merry Young Soldier . Town and Country .. Lament for the Decline of Chivalry . The Green Man . More Hullahbaloo . • Page 107 109 114 116 121 123 127 128 139 143 • 145 149 • 153 160 ODES AND ...
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... the hand comes forth , and down it hurls A lady's miniature beset with pearls . Yet long upon the floor it did not tarry , Before another outrage could be planned : Poor Juno , who had learned to fetch and carry LOVE AND LUNACY . 7.
... the hand comes forth , and down it hurls A lady's miniature beset with pearls . Yet long upon the floor it did not tarry , Before another outrage could be planned : Poor Juno , who had learned to fetch and carry LOVE AND LUNACY . 7.
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... Ladies of Miss Bate . But when the screens were left unclosed by chance , The blinds not down , as if Miss B. were dead , Each upper window to a passing glance Revealed a little dimity white bed ; Each lower one a cropped or curly head ...
... Ladies of Miss Bate . But when the screens were left unclosed by chance , The blinds not down , as if Miss B. were dead , Each upper window to a passing glance Revealed a little dimity white bed ; Each lower one a cropped or curly head ...
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... , Topmast to shatter her , Tobacco to spatter her ; Boreas blustering , Boatswain quite flustering , Thunder - clouds mustering To blast her with sulphur- If the deep don't ingulph 66 THE LADY AT SEA . The Lady at Sea •
... , Topmast to shatter her , Tobacco to spatter her ; Boreas blustering , Boatswain quite flustering , Thunder - clouds mustering To blast her with sulphur- If the deep don't ingulph 66 THE LADY AT SEA . The Lady at Sea •
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Page 208 - element,' but the word is over-worn. \Exit. Vio. This fellow is wise enough to play the fool ; And to do that well craves a kind of wit : He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye.
Page 102 - SWEET MEMORY, wafted by thy gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail, To view the fairy-haunts of long-lost hours, Blest with far greener shades, far fresher flowers.
Page 262 - If any person, of what degree soever, high or low, shall deny or gainsay our Sovereign Lord King George the Fourth of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, son and next heir to our Sovereign Lord King George...
Page 35 - Those joyous hours are past away ; And many a heart, that then was gay, Within the tomb now darkly dwells, And hears no more those evening bells. And so 'twill be when I am gone ; That tuneful peal will still ring on, While...
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Page 167 - Com — com — I say ! You go away ! Into two parts my head you split — My fiddle cannot hear himself a bit, When I do play — You have no bis'ness in a place so still ! Can you not come another day?" Says he—
Page 47 - TO THE REVIEWERS. What is a modern Poet's fate ? To write his thoughts upon a slate ; — The Critic spits on what is done, — Gives it a wipe, — and all is gone.
Page 262 - Kingdom, or that he ought not to enjoy the same, here is his Champion, who saith that he lieth, and is a false traitor, being ready in person to combat with him, and in this quarrel will adventure his life against him on what day soever he shall be appointed.