Works
Famous Thomas Hood Quotes
Thomas Hood, Craniology, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 597.
20th century
“A man that's fond precociously of stirring,
Must be a spoon.”
Morning Meditations (1839), St. 10.
1830s
No! http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=3153&poem=27392. <br class="br">1830s
Thomas Hood Quotes about heart
“But evil is wrought by want of thought,
As well as want of heart.”
The Lady's Dream http://www.gerald-massey.org.uk/eop_hood_poetical_works_7.htm#246, st. 16 (1827). <br class="br">1820s
Home at last; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
20th century
Ode to Rae Wilson; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
20th century
“And there is ev'n a happiness
That makes the heart afraid!”
Ode to Melancholy http://www.gerald-massey.org.uk/eop_hood_poetical_works_2.htm#057, st. 6 (1827). <br class="br">1820s
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Ode to Rae Wilson; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
20th century
“There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.”
Ode to Melancholy, st. 8.
1820s
“No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.”
1840s, The Song of the Shirt (1843)
Thomas Hood Quotes
“Home-made dishes that drive one from home.”
Her Honeymoon; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
20th century
“For my part, getting up seems not so easy
By half as lying.”
Morning Meditations (1839).
1830s
“Alas! for the rarity
Of Christian charity
Under the sun!”
Thomas Hood The Bridge of Sighs
The Bridge of Sighs (1844), st. 9.
1840s
Her Moral; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
20th century
“Boughs are daily rifled
By the gusty thieves,
And the book of Nature
Getteth short of leaves.”
The Season; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
20th century
“There's a double beauty whenever a swan
Swims on a lake with her double thereon.”
Her Honeymoon; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
20th century
St. 4.
1840s, The Song of the Shirt (1843)
“Oh, God! that bread should be so dear,
And flesh and blood so cheap!”
St. 5.
1840s, The Song of the Shirt (1843)
“Thus she stood amid the stooks,
Praising God with sweetest looks.”
Ruth; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
20th century
“Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold!
Bright and yellow, hard and cold.”
Her Moral; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
20th century
The Death-Bed; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
20th century
“Spurned by the young, but hugged by the old
To the very verge of the churchyard mould.”
Her Moral; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
20th century
The Death-Bed; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
20th century
“Another tumble! That's his precious nose!”
Parental Ode to my infant Son; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
20th century
“Oh would I were dead now,
Or up in my bed now,
To cover my head now,
And have a good cry!”
A Table of Errata; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
20th century
“When he is forsaken,
Withered and shaken,
What can an old man do but die?”
Spring it is cheery; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
20th century
“My tears must stop, for every drop
Hinders needle and thread.”
1840s, The Song of the Shirt (1843)
“I saw old Autumn in the misty morn
Stand shadowless like Silence, listening
To silence.”
Ode. Autmn http://www.gerald-massey.org.uk/eop_hood_poetical_works_5.htm#195b, st. 1 (1827). <br class="br">1820s
Faithless Sally Brown, st. 17 (1826).
1820s
Sonnet, Silence; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
20th century
Ruth; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
20th century
“Pity it is to slay the meanest thing.”
Plea of the Midsummer Fairies; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
20th century
“Oh bed! oh bed! delicious bed!
That heaven upon earth to the weary head.”
Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg. Her Dream http://www.gerald-massey.org.uk/eop_hood_poetical_works_4.htm#146, st. 7. <br class="br">1840s
“Straight down the Crooked Lane,
And all round the Square.”
A Plain Direction http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15652/15652-h/15652-h.htm#poem_135, st. 1. <br class="br">1820s
“Seem'd washing his hands with invisible soap
In imperceptible water.”
Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg. Her Christening http://www.gerald-massey.org.uk/eop_hood_poetical_works_3.htm#115, st. 10 (1841-1843). <br class="br">1840s
“Even God's providence
Seeming estranged.”
Thomas Hood The Bridge of Sighs
The Bridge of Sighs (1844).
1840s
“Never go to France
Unless you know the lingo,
If you do, like me,
You will repent, by jingo.”
French and English, st. 1 (1839).
1830s
“A wife who preaches in her gown,
And lectures in her night-dress.”
The Surplice Question; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
20th century
“He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way,
Tormenting himself with his prickles.”
Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg. Her Dream http://www.gerald-massey.org.uk/eop_hood_poetical_works_4.htm#146 (Part the Third, 1840). <br class="br">1840s
Faithless Nellie Gray; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
20th century
“Sewing at once a double thread,
A shroud as well as a shirt.”
1840s, The Song of the Shirt (1843)
