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“My head was like an ardent coal,
My heart as solid ice;
My wretched, wretched soul, I knew,
Was at the Devil's price:
A dozen times I groaned: the dead
Had never groaned but twice!”

Thomas Hood

1840s, The Dream of Eugene Aram

Soul , Time , Heart , Dead

“I remember, I remember
The house where I was born,
The little window where the sun
Came peeping in at morn;
He never came a wink too soon
Nor brought too long a day;
But now, I often wish the night
Had borne my breath away.”

Thomas Hood

I Remember, I Remember, st. 1 (1827).
1820s

Sun , Housing , Night

“Tis strange how like a very dunce,
Man, with his bumps upon his sconce,
Has lived so long, and yet no knowledge he
Has had, till lately, of Phrenology—
A science that by simple dint of
Head-combing he should find a hint of,
When scratching o'er those little pole-hills
The faculties throw up like mole hills.”

Thomas Hood

Thomas Hood, Craniology, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 597.
20th century

Knowledge , Science

“A man that's fond precociously of stirring,
Must be a spoon.”

Thomas Hood

Morning Meditations (1839), St. 10.
1830s

“With fingers weary and worn,
With eyelids heavy and red,
A woman sat, in unwomanly rags,
Plying her needle and thread—
Stitch! stitch! stitch!
In poverty, hunger, and dirt,
And still with a voice of dolorous pitch
She sang the “Song of the Shirt.””

Thomas Hood

St. 1.
1840s, The Song of the Shirt (1843)

Hunger

“No solemn sanctimonious face I pull,
Nor think I'm pious when I'm only bilious;
Nor study in my sanctum supercilious,
To frame a Sabbath Bill or forge a Bull.”

Thomas Hood

Ode to Rae Wilson; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
20th century

Thinking , Study

“No sun—no moon—no morn—no noon,
No dawn—no dusk—no proper time of day,
No warmth—no cheerfulness—no healthful ease,
No road, no street, no t' other side the way,
No comfortable feel in any member—
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,
No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds,
November!”

Thomas Hood

No! http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=3153&poem=27392.
1830s

Health , Way , Feeling , Flowers

“There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.”

Thomas Hood

Ode to Melancholy, st. 8.
1820s

“Home-made dishes that drive one from home.”

Thomas Hood

Her Honeymoon; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
20th century

Home

“For my part, getting up seems not so easy
By half as lying.”

Thomas Hood

Morning Meditations (1839).
1830s

Lying , Parting

“Alas! for the rarity
Of Christian charity
Under the sun!”

Thomas Hood The Bridge of Sighs

The Bridge of Sighs (1844), st. 9.
1840s

Sun

“How widely its agencies vary,—
To save, to ruin, to curse, to bless,—
As even its minted coins express,
Now stamped with the image of Good Queen Bess,
And now of a Bloody Mary.”

Thomas Hood

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.”

Thomas Hood

The Season; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
20th century

Books , Nature

“There's a double beauty whenever a swan
Swims on a lake with her double thereon.”

Thomas Hood

Her Honeymoon; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
20th century

Beauty

“Oh, Men, with Sisters dear!
Oh, Men, with Mothers and Wives!
It is not linen you're wearing out,
But human creatures' lives!”

Thomas Hood

St. 4.
1840s, The Song of the Shirt (1843)

Men , Sister

“What joy have I in June's return?
My feet are parched—my eyeballs burn,
I scent no flowery gust;
But faint the flagging Zephyr springs,
With dry Macadam on its wings,
And turns me "dust to dust."”

Thomas Hood

Ode Imitated from Horace (1844), st. 2.
1840s

Spring , Joy

“Oh, God! that bread should be so dear,
And flesh and blood so cheap!”

Thomas Hood

St. 5.
1840s, The Song of the Shirt (1843)

God

“Thus she stood amid the stooks,
Praising God with sweetest looks.”

Thomas Hood Ruth

Ruth; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
20th century

God

“Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold!
Bright and yellow, hard and cold.”

Thomas Hood

Her Moral; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
20th century