62 Famous Quotes by Thomas Hood
5/17/1799 - 5/3/1845
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About Thomas Hood
Thomas Hood was a British humorist and poet. His son, Tom Hood, became a well known playwright and editor.
The Quaker loves an ample brim,
A hat that bows to no Salaam;
And dear the beaver is to him
As if it never made a dam.
Hatters
Quotes, by Thomas Hood , Source: All Round my Hat
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And however are Dennises take offence,
A double meaning shows double sense;
And if proverbs tell truth,
A double tooth
Is wisdom's adopted dwelling.
Jesting
Quotes, by Thomas Hood , Source: Miss Kilmansegg
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Gold! gold! gold! gold!
Bright and yellow, hard and cold!
Gold
Quotes, by Thomas Hood , Source: Miss Kilmansegg--Her Moral
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The Autumn is old;
The sere leaves are flying;
He hath gather'd up gold,
And now he is dying;--
Old age, begin sighing!
Autumn
Quotes, by Thomas Hood , Source: Autumn
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The year's in wane;
There is nothing adorning;
The night has no eve,
And the day has no morning;
Cold winter gives warning!
Autumn
Quotes, by Thomas Hood , Source: Autumn
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I saw old Autumn in the misty morn
Stand shadowless like silence, listening
To silence, for no lonely bird would sing
Into his hollow ear from woods forlorn,
Nor lowly hedge nor solitary thorn;--
Shaking his languid locks all dewy bright
With tangled gossamer that fell by night,
Pearling his coronet of golden corn.
Autumn
Quotes, by Thomas Hood , Source: Ode--Autumn
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But she is vanish'd to her shady home
Under the deep, inscrutable; and there
Weeps in a midnight made of her own hair.
Hair
Quotes, by Thomas Hood , Source: Hero and Leander (116)
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And soon
Their hushing dances languished to a stand,
Like midnight leaves when, as the Zephyrs swoon,
All on their drooping stems they sink unfanned.
Zephyrs
Quotes, by Thomas Hood , Source: The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies
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Sweet are the little brooks that run
O'er pebbles glancing in the sun,
Singing in soothing tones.
Brooks
Quotes, by Thomas Hood , Source: Town and Country (st. 9)
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'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.
Phrenology
Quotes, by Thomas Hood , Source: Craniology
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There's a double beauty whenever a swan
Swims on a lake with her double thereon.
Swans
Quotes, by Thomas Hood , Source: Her Honeymoon
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Where is the pride of Summer,--the green prime,--
The many, many leaves all twinkling?--three
On the mossed elm; three on the naked lime
Trembling,--and one upon the old oak tree!
Where is the Dryad's immortality?
Trees
Quotes, by Thomas Hood , Source: Ode--Autumn
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The moon, the moon, so silver and cold,
Her fickle temper has oft been told,
Now shade--now bright and sunny--
But of all the lunar things that change,
The one that shows most fickle and strange,
And takes the most eccentric range,
Is the moon--so called--of honey!
Moon
Quotes, by Thomas Hood , Source: Miss Milmansegg--Her Honeymoon
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Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go
Over those hoary crests, divinely led!
Art thou that huntress of the silver bow
Fabled of old? Or rather dost thou tread
Those cloudy summits thence to gaze below,
Like the wild chamois from her Alpine snow,
Where hunters never climbed--secure from dread?
Moon
Quotes, by Thomas Hood , Source: Ode to the Moon
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"Good, well-dress'd turtle beats them hollow,--
It almost makes me wish, I vow,
To have two stomachs, like a cow!"
And lo! as with the cud, an inward thrill
Upheaved his waistcoat and disturb'd his frill,
His mouth was oozing, and he work'd his jaw--
"I almost that that I could eat one raw."
Eating
Quotes, by Thomas Hood , Source: The Turtles
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Whoe'er has gone thro' London street,
Has seen a butcher gazing at his meat,
And how he keeps
Gloating upon a sheep's
Or bullock's personals, as if his own;
How he admires his halves
And quarters--and his calves,
As if in truth upon his own legs grown.
Butchering
Quotes, by Thomas Hood , Source: A Butcher
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Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams,
Unnatural and full of contradictions;
Yet others of our most romantic schemes
Are something more than fictions.
Dreams
Quotes, by Thomas Hood , Source: The Haunted House (pt. I)
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Well, something must be done for May,
The time is drawing nigh--
To figure in the Catalogue,
And woo the public eye.
Something I must invent and paint;
But oh my wit is not
Like one of those kind substantives
That answer Who and What?
Painting
Quotes, by Thomas Hood , Source: The Painter Puzzled
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Father of rosy day,
No more thy clouds of incense rise;
But waking flow'rs,
At morning hours,
Give out their sweets to meet thee in the skies.
Sun
Quotes, by Thomas Hood , Source: Hymn to the Sun (st. 4)
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She stood breast-high amid the corn,
Clasp'd by the golden light of morn,
Like the sweetheart of the sun,
Who many a glowing kiss had won.
Sun
Quotes, by Thomas Hood , Source: Ruth
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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."
June
Quotes, by Thomas Hood , Source: Town and Country--Old Imitated from Horace
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