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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.

  Thomas Hood

  Sweet, Morning, Father

  Thomas Hood (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)”, p.299, Delphi Classics

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• My brain is dull, my sight is foul,
  I cannot write a verse, or read--
  Then, Pallas, take away thine Owl,
  And let us have a lark instead.

  Thomas Hood

  Sex, Writing, Sight

  Thomas Hood, Frances F. Broderip (1860). “Memorials: In 2 Vol”, p.339

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• Experience enables me to depose to the comfort and blessing that literature can prove in seasons of sickness and sorrow.

  Thomas Hood

  Blessing, Sorrow, Comfort

  Thomas Hood, Frances F. Broderip (1860). “Memorials: In 2 Vol”, p.154

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• There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy.

  Thomas Hood

  Mirth, Melancholy, Chords

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• Well for the drones of the social hive that there are bees of an industrious turn, willing, for an infinitesimal share of the honey, to undertake the labor of its fabrication.

  Thomas Hood

  Honey, Bees, Drones

  Thomas Hood (1866). “The poetical works of Thomas Hood”, p.22

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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!

  Thomas Hood

  Autumn, Flying, Gold

  Thomas Hood (1858). “Poems ... Tenth edition”, p.375

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• Comfort and indolence are cronies.

  Thomas Hood

  Comfort, Cronies, Indolence

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• Some sigh for this and that; My wishes don't go far; The world may wag at will, So I have my cigar.

  Thomas Hood

  Wish, World, May

  Thomas Hood, Thomas Hood (Jr.) (1867). “The Comic Poems of Thomas Hood”, p.193

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• Pity it is to slay the meanest thing.

  Thomas Hood

  Lástima

  Thomas Hood (1871). “The poetical works of Thomas Hood, ed. by W.M. Rossetti”, p.25

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

  Thomas Hood

  Men, Age, Old Man

  Thomas Hood (1860). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood”, p.145

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• Jasmine is sweet, and has many loves.

  Thomas Hood

  Sweet, Jasmine

  Thomas Hood (1859). “The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood: With a Biographical Sketch and Notes”, p.213

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• ¿Cuál es el destino de un poeta moderno? / Escribir sus pensamientos en una pizarra; / El crítico escupe sobre lo hecho, / Le da un trapo - y todo desaparece.

  Thomas Hood

  Writing, Fate, Giving

  'A Joke' in a common-place book of Hallam Tennyson's, in Hallam Tennyson 'Alfred Lord Tennyson, A Memoir' (1897) vol. 2, ch. 3 (not found in Hood's Complete Works)

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• The cowslip is a country wench.

  Thomas Hood

  Country, Wenches

  Thomas Hood (1859). “The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood: With a Biographical Sketch and Notes”, p.213

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• Quienquiera que haya pasado por las calles de Londres, ha visto a un carnicero contemplando su carne, y cómo se regodea en los miembros de una oveja o de un buey, como si fueran suyos; cómo admira sus mitades y sus cuartos, y sus terneros, como si en verdad fueran sus propias patas.

  Thomas Hood

  Sheep, Gone, Half

  Thomas Hood (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)”, p.190, Delphi Classics

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• Sweet are the little brooks that run O'er pebbles glancing in the sun, Singing in soothing tones.

  Thomas Hood

  Running, Sweet, Singing

  Thomas Hood, Francis James Child (1856). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood”, p.147

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• Extremes meet', as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth.

  Thomas Hood

  Tails, Mouths, Said

  'The Doves and the Crows'

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• Por mi parte, levantarse no parece tan fácil Por medio como mentir.

  Thomas Hood

  Lying, Half, Easy

  Thomas Hood (1972). “The works of Thomas Hood: Comic and serious, in prose and verse”

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• El cuáquero ama el ala ancha, un sombrero que no se inclina ante ningún salaam; y el castor le es tan querido como si nunca hubiera hecho una presa.

  Thomas Hood

  Love, Dams, Bows

  Thomas Hood (1858). “The Miscellaneous Poems of Thomas Hood: Containing Lamia, the Epping Hunt, Odes and Addresses, and Poems of Sentiment, Wit, and Humor, with Notes”, p.174

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• Ni sol, ni luna, ni mañana, ni mediodía, Ni amanecer, ni anochecer, ni hora propia del día, . . . . Ni camino, ni calle, ni al otro lado del camino, . . . . Ni sombra, ni brillo, ni mariposas, ni abejas, Ni frutos, ni flores, ni hojas, ni capullos.

  Thomas Hood

  Flower, Butterfly, Moon

  Thomas Hood, “No!”

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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.

  Thomas Hood

  Kissing, Light, Glowing

  1827 'Ruth'.

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• Los mejores amigos se caen, y así lo habían hecho sus dientes hacía algunos años.

  Thomas Hood

  Fall, Years, Teeth

  Thomas Hood (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)”, p.158, Delphi Classics

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• ¡Oro! ¡Oro! ¡Oro! ¡Oro! ¡Brillante y amarillo, duro y frío!

  Thomas Hood

  Yellow, Gold, Jewelry

  Thomas Hood (1859). “The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood: With a Biographical Sketch and Notes”, p.306

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• We watch'd 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

  Life, Night, Breathing

  Thomas Hood (1871). “The poetical works of Thomas Hood, ed. by W.M. Rossetti”, p.258

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• 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

  Fear, Sleep, Dying

  Thomas Hood (1860). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood”, p.170

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• And there is even a happiness That makes the heart afraid.

  Thomas Hood

  Corazón

  Thomas Hood (1860). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood”, p.163

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