Thomas Hood: Likeness

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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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Never go to France
Unless you know the lingo,
If you do, like me,
You will repent, by jingo.”

Thomas Hood

French and English, st. 1 (1839).
1830s

“He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way,
Tormenting himself with his prickles.”

Thomas Hood

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).
1840s

Way