The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood: With Some Account of the Author. In Four Volumes, Volume 4Little, Brown, 1863 |
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... thou wilt extinguish them in vapors , When I am gone , and green grass covereth Thy lover , lost ; but it will be in vain It will not bring the vital spark again . Ah ! when those eyes , like tapers , burned A VALENTINE . 51 A Valentine...
... thou wilt extinguish them in vapors , When I am gone , and green grass covereth Thy lover , lost ; but it will be in vain It will not bring the vital spark again . Ah ! when those eyes , like tapers , burned A VALENTINE . 51 A Valentine...
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... thou wilt sprightly be As now thou art : but will not tears of woe Water thy spirits , with remorse adjunct , When thou dost pause , and think of the defunct ? And when thy soul is buried in a sleep , In midnight solitude , and little ...
... thou wilt sprightly be As now thou art : but will not tears of woe Water thy spirits , with remorse adjunct , When thou dost pause , and think of the defunct ? And when thy soul is buried in a sleep , In midnight solitude , and little ...
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... thou wilt cross thyself with treble scream- ing , And pray with mingled penitence and dread That I were less alive or not so dead . Then will thy heart confess thee , and reprove This wilful homicide which thou hast done : And the sad ...
... thou wilt cross thyself with treble scream- ing , And pray with mingled penitence and dread That I were less alive or not so dead . Then will thy heart confess thee , and reprove This wilful homicide which thou hast done : And the sad ...
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... thou art a sea - gull too ! " And lo ! the tide was over his feet ; O ! his heart began to freeze , And slowly to pulse : - in another beat The wave was up to his knees ! VOL . IV . 5 He was deafened amidst the mountain tops , And the ...
... thou art a sea - gull too ! " And lo ! the tide was over his feet ; O ! his heart began to freeze , And slowly to pulse : - in another beat The wave was up to his knees ! VOL . IV . 5 He was deafened amidst the mountain tops , And the ...
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... father stamp , and curse and swear , Pulling his beard because he had no heir . Then strove their stag - eyed mother to calm down This his parental rage , and thus addrest : " O ! Most Serene ! why dost thou stamp THE STAG - EYED LADY . 71.
... father stamp , and curse and swear , Pulling his beard because he had no heir . Then strove their stag - eyed mother to calm down This his parental rage , and thus addrest : " O ! Most Serene ! why dost thou stamp THE STAG - EYED LADY . 71.
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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.