Thomas Hood: Trending quotes (page 2)

“We watched her breathing through the night,
Her breathing soft and low,
As in her breast the wave of life
Kept heaving to and fro.”

Thomas Hood The Death-Bed

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

Life , Night

“Spurned by the young, but hugged by the old
To the very verge of the churchyard mould.”

Thomas Hood

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

“That very night while gentle sleep
The urchin's eyelids kissed,
Two stern-faced men set out from Lynn,
Through the cold and heavy mist;
And Eugene Aram walked between,
With gyves upon his wrist.”

Thomas Hood

1840s, The Dream of Eugene Aram

Men , Kiss , Sleep , Night

“Our very hopes belied our fears,
Our fears our hopes belied;
We thought her dying when she slept,
And sleeping when she died.”

Thomas Hood The Death-Bed

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

Fear , Hope , Sleep

“Peace and rest at length have come
All the day's long toil is past,
And each heart is whispering, "Home,
Home at last."”

Thomas Hood

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

Peace , Home , Past , Heart

“Another tumble! That's his precious nose!”

Thomas Hood

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!”

Thomas Hood

A Table of Errata; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
20th century

Cry , Dead

“When he is forsaken,
Withered and shaken,
What can an old man do but die?”

Thomas Hood

Spring it is cheery; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
20th century

“One more Unfortunate,
Weary of breath,
Rashly importunate,
Gone to her death!

Take her up tenderly,
Lift her with care;
Fashion'd so slenderly
Young, and so fair!”

Thomas Hood The Bridge of Sighs

The Bridge of Sighs (1844), st. 1-2.
1840s

Death

“My tears must stop, for every drop
Hinders needle and thread.”

Thomas Hood

1840s, The Song of the Shirt (1843)

Tear

“Twas in the prime of summer-time
An evening calm and cool,
And four-and-twenty happy boys
Came bounding out of school:
There were some that ran and some that leapt,
Like troutlets in a pool.”

Thomas Hood

1840s, The Dream of Eugene Aram

School , Boy , Time , Summer

“But evil is wrought by want of thought,
As well as want of heart.”

Thomas Hood

The Lady's Dream http://www.gerald-massey.org.uk/eop_hood_poetical_works_7.htm#246, st. 16 (1827).
1820s

Evil , Heart

“I saw old Autumn in the misty morn
Stand shadowless like Silence, listening
To silence.”

Thomas Hood

Ode. Autmn http://www.gerald-massey.org.uk/eop_hood_poetical_works_5.htm#195b, st. 1 (1827).
1820s

Autumn , Silence

“His death which happened in his berth,
At forty-odd befell:
They went and told the sexton, and
The sexton tolled the bell.”

Thomas Hood

Faithless Sally Brown, st. 17 (1826).
1820s

Death

“There is a silence where hath been no sound,
There is a silence where no sound may be,—
In the cold grave, under the deep, deep sea,
Or in the wide desert where no life is found.”

Thomas Hood

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

Life , Silence , Sea

“She stood breast-high amid the corn
Clasped by the golden light of morn,
Like the sweetheart of the sun,
Who many a glowing kiss had won.”

Thomas Hood Ruth

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

Kiss , Light , Sun

“Pity it is to slay the meanest thing.”

Thomas Hood

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.”

Thomas Hood

Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg. Her Dream http://www.gerald-massey.org.uk/eop_hood_poetical_works_4.htm#146, st. 7.
1840s

“Straight down the Crooked Lane,
And all round the Square.”

Thomas Hood

A Plain Direction http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15652/15652-h/15652-h.htm#poem_135, st. 1.
1820s

“Each cloud-capt mountain is a holy altar;
An organ breathes in every grove;
And the full heart 's a Psalter,
Rich in deep hymn of gratitude and love.”

Thomas Hood

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

Love , Mountain , Heart , Gratitude