A Retrospective Review (Thomas Hood Poems)
IOh, when I was a tiny boy,My days and nights were full of joy,My mates were blithe and kind!-No wonder ...
IOh, when I was a tiny boy,My days and nights were full of joy,My mates were blithe and kind!-No wonder ...
Roll back, roll back a hundred years,Thou ever-rolling wheel of time ;Restore again dead hopes and fears,Exhume the undiscovered crime.Why ...
WHAT a pure and chastened splendor,What a grace of joyance tender,Like to starlight or to moonlight,Melting into fairy Junelight,Sleeps my ...
ALOOF from his tribeOn the elm-tree's top,A jackdaw perchedA hand-reach up.Silent he satOn the branch, nor stirred,And I saw m ...
THOUGH she has a name you bore,Elfin-Heart we loved before,You are lost to us, you child,Little life-flame burning wild!Though her ...
FOR the poor body that I ownI could weep many a tear:The days have stolen flesh and bone,And left a ...
Sometimes I watch you, mark your brooding eyes,Your grave brow over-weighted with deep thought,Your mouth's straight line - details of ...
Leodogran, the King of Cameliard, Had one fair daughter, and none other child;And she was the fairest of all flesh ...
DwellingsYES! we've our Borough-vices, and I knowHow far they spread, how rapidly they grow;Yet think not virtue quits the busy ...
I."Carry me out of the host, for I am wounded."The battle waged strong.A fainting soul was borne from the host.The ...
"HE stood up in our khaki with the poise Of perfect soldiership beneath the praise Of the French officer. We ...
HERE, Earth-born, over the lilt of the water, Lisping its music and bearing a burden of light, Bosoming day as ...
Brian O'Byrne of Omah town In his garden strode up and down; He pulled his beard, and he beat his ...
A frost came in the night and stole my worldAnd left this changeling for it - a precociousImage of spring, ...
Ah, what a changeling! Yester you dashed from the west, Altho' it is Spring, And scattered ...
Whatever alien fruits and changeling facesAnd pleasances of mutable perfumeThe flambeaux of the senses shall illumeAmid the night-furled labyrinthine spaces,In ...
My Future lay cradled asleep; I kissed the sweet mouth and she smiled With a promise of all she should ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
(In memoriam C. T. W. Sometime trooper of the Royal Horse Guards obiit H.M. prison, Reading, Berkshire July 7, 1896) ...
Leodogran, the King of Cameliard, Had one fair daughter, and none other child; And she was the fairest of all ...
NOW bare to the beholder's eye Your late denuded bindings lie, Subsiding slowly where they fell, A disinvested citadel; The ...
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