But why do I talk of Death?
(The Song Of The Shirt)
More Quotes from Thomas Hood:
When he is forsaken, Wither'd and shaken, What can an old man do but die.Thomas Hood
The neighbours fetched a doctor in :
Said he, "'This wound I dread
Can hardly be sewed up -
his life Is hanging on a thread.
Thomas Hood
Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!
Thomas Hood
When Eve upon the first of Men The apple pressd with specious cant, Oh what a thousand pities then That Adam was not Adamant.
Thomas Hood
Spurn'd by the young, but hugg'd by the old To the very verge of the churchyard mould.
Thomas Hood
He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way, Tormenting himself with his prickles.
Thomas Hood
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