University of Virginia Library

Search this document 
The complete poetical works of Thomas Hood

Hood, Thomas (1799-1845)

collapse section 
WHIMS AND ODDITIES. First Series
  
DEDICATION TO THE REVIEWERS
  
MORAL REFLECTIONS ON THE CROSS OF ST. PAUL'S
  
A VALENTINE
  
BACKING THE FAVOURITE!
  
THE MERMAID OF MARGATE
  
‘AS IT FELL UPON A DAY’
  
THE FALL OF THE DEER
  
DECEMBER AND MAY
  
A WINTER NOSEGAY
  
EQUESTRIAN COURTSHIP
  
SHE IS FAR FROM THE LAND
  
REMONSTRATORY ODE FROM THE ELEPHANT AT EXETER CHANGE, TO MR. MATHEWS AT THE ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE (WRITTEN BY A FRIEND)
  
THE SEA-SPELL
collapse section 
WHIMS AND ODDITIES. Second Series
  
[dedication]
  
MARY'S GHOST A PATHETIC BALLAD
  
THE PROGRESS OF ART
  
A LEGEND OF NAVARRE
  
THE DEMON-SHIP
  
TIM TURPIN A PATHETIC BALLAD
  
THE MONKEY-MARTYR A FABLE
  
CRANIOLOGY
  
JACK HALL
  
THE WEE MAN A ROMANCE
  
A BUTCHER
  
‘DON'T YOU SMELL FIRE?’
  
THE VOLUNTEER
  
THE WIDOW
  
JOHN TROT A BALLAD
  
ODE TO THE CAMELEOPARD
collapse section 
VERSES FROM ‘TYLNEY HALL’
  
[PLAY ON, YE TIMID RABBITS]
  
[A DECLARATION]
  
[THE STREAMLET]
  
TOM TATTERS' BIRTHDAY ODE
collapse section 
HOOD'S OWN: OR, LAUGHTER FROM YEAR TO YEAR BEING FORMER RUNNINGS OF HIS COMIC VEIN, WITH AN INFUSION OF NEW BLOOD FOR GENERAL CIRCULATION
  
AN ANCIENT CONCERT BY A VENERABLE DIRECTOR
  
SONNET ON STEAM BY AN UNDER-OSTLER
  
A REPORT FROM BELOW
  
ODE TO M. BRUNEL
  
OVER THE WAY
  
A NOCTURNAL SKETCH
  
DOMESTIC ASIDES; OR, TRUTH IN PARENTHESES
collapse section 
EPIGRAMS COMPOSED ON READING A DIARY LATELY PUBLISHED
  
[That flesh is grass is now as clear as day]
  
THE LAST WISH
collapse section 
[section]
  
THE DEVIL'S ALBUM
  
THE LOST HEIR
  
JOHN DAY A PATHETIC BALLAD
  
NUMBER ONE VERSIFIED FROM THE PROSE OF A YOUNG LADY
  
THE DROWNING DUCKS
  
SALLY SIMPKIN'S LAMENT OR, JOHN JONES'S KIT-CAT-ASTROPHE
  
THE FALL
  
SONNET
collapse section 
THE STEAM SERVICE
 I. 
I
 II. 
II
  
A LAY OF REAL LIFE
  
A VALENTINE THE WEATHER. TO P. MURPHY, ESQ., M.N.S.
  
POEM,—FROM THE POLISH
  
CONVEYANCING
  
SONNET
  
EPICUREAN REMINISCENCES OF A SENTIMENTALIST
  
I'M NOT A SINGLE MAN
  
THE BURNING OF THE LOVE-LETTER
  
THE APPARITION
  
LITTLE O'P.—AN AFRICAN FACT
  
THE ANGLER'S FAREWELL
  
SEA SONG AFTER DIBDIN
  
STANZAS ON COMING OF AGE
  
A SINGULAR EXHIBITION AT SOMERSET HOUSE
  
I'M GOING TO BOMBAY
  
ODE TO THE ADVOCATES FOR THE REMOVAL OF SMITHFIELD MARKET
  
ODE FOR ST. CECILIA'S EVE
  
A BLOW-UP
  
THE GHOST A VERY SERIOUS BALLAD
  
ODE TO MADAME HENGLER FIREWORK-MAKER TO VAUXHALL
  
THE DOUBLE KNOCK
collapse section 
BAILEY BALLADS
 I. 
LINES TO MARY (AT NO. I NEWGATE, FAVOURED BY MR. WONTNER)
 II. 
No. II
 III. 
No. III
collapse section 
[section]
  
FRENCH AND ENGLISH
  
OUR VILLAGE.—BY A VILLAGER
  
A TRUE STORY
  
THE CARELESSE NURSE MAYD
  
TO FANNY
collapse section 
POEMS, BY A POOR GENTLEMAN
  
STANZAS WRITTEN UNDER THE FEAR OF BAILIFFS
  
SONNET WRITTEN IN A WORKHOUSE
  
SONNET.—A SOMNAMBULIST
  
FUGITIVE LINES ON PAWNING MY WATCH
  
THE COMPASS, WITH VARIATIONS
  
PAIR'D, NOT MATCH'D
  
THE DUEL
  
SONNET TO VAUXHALL
  
ODE TO MR. MALTHUS
  
A GOOD DIRECTION
  
THERE'S NO ROMANCE IN THAT
  
A WATERLOO BALLAD
  
SHOOTING PAINS
  
THE BOY AT THE NORE
  
ODE TO ST. SWITHIN
  
THE SCHOOLMASTER'S MOTTO
  
THE SUPPER SUPERSTITION A PATHETIC BALLAD
  
A STORM AT HASTINGS AND THE LITTLE UNKNOWN
  
LINES TO A LADY ON HER DEPARTURE FOR INDIA
  
SONNET TO A SCOTCH GIRL, WASHING LINEN AFTER HER COUNTRY FASHION
  
SONNET TO A DECAYED SEAMAN
  
HUGGINS AND DUGGINS A PASTORAL AFTER POPE
  
DOMESTIC DIDACTICS BY AN OLD SERVANT THE BROKEN DISH
  
ODE TO PEACE WRITTEN ON THE NIGHT OF MY MISTRESS'S GRAND ROUT
  
A FEW LINES ON COMPLETING FORTY-SEVEN
  
TO MARY HOUSEMAID ON VALENTINE'S DAY
  
PAIN IN A PLEASURE-BOAT A SEA ECLOGUE
  
LITERARY AND LITERAL
  
‘Love Lays and Lyrics
  
SONNET TO LORD WHARNCLIFFE, ON HIS GAME BILL
  
LITERARY REMINISCENCES
  
ODE TO PERRY THE INVENTOR OF THE PATENT PERRYAN PEN
  
THE UNDYING ONE
  
COCKLE v. CACKLE
  
THE SWEEP'S COMPLAINT
  
THE SUB-MARINE
  
DOG-GREL VERSES, BY A POOR BLIND
  
THE KANGAROOS A FABLE
  
ODE FOR THE NINTH OF NOVEMBER
  
SONNET
  
RONDEAU (EXTRACTED FROM A WELL-KNOWN ANNUAL)
  
SYMPTOMS OF OSSIFICATION
  
THE POACHER A SERIOUS BALLAD
  
I CANNOT BEAR A GUN
  
TRIMMER'S EXERCISE FOR THE USE OF CHILDREN
  
THE FOX AND THE HEN A FABLE
  
THE COMET AN ASTRONOMICAL ANECDOTE
  
LOVE AND LUNACY
  
THOSE EVENING BELLS
  
LINES TO A FRIEND AT COBHAM
collapse section 
THE QUAKERS' CONVERSAZIONE
 I. 
I SONNET How sweet thus clad, in Autumn's mellow Tone
 II. 
II LINES ON THE CELEBRATION OF PEACE
collapse section 
[section]
  
THE LAMENT OF TOBY, THE LEARNED PIG
  
TO A BAD RIDER
  
MY SON AND HEIR
collapse section 
WHIMSICALITIES: A PERIODICAL GATHERING
  
ANACREONTIC FOR THE NEW YEAR
  
A MORNING THOUGHT
  
NO!
  
TO MY DAUGHTER ON HER BIRTHDAY
  
EPIGRAM ON MRS. PARKES'S PAMPHLET
  
THE FLOWER
  
EPIGRAM: ON THE ART UNIONS
  
ON LIEUTENANT EYRE'S NARRATIVE OF THE DISASTERS AT CABUL
  
EPIGRAM ON A LATE CATTLE-SHOW IN SMITHFIELD
  
ON A CERTAIN LOCALITY
  
PARTY SPIRIT
  
A REFLECTION ON NEW YEAR'S EVE
  
A FIRST ATTEMPT IN RHYME
  
EPIGRAM ON THE CHINESE TREATY
  
THE SEASON
  
ON THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY TAKEN BY THE DAGUERREOTYPE
  
EPIGRAM: ON THE DEPRECIATED MONEY
  
EPIGRAM

collapse section Collapse All | Expand All expand section
no previous section The complete poetical works of Thomas Hood
next section

The complete poetical works of Thomas Hood

Thomas Hood

1799-1845
Henry Frowde
London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, New York and Toronto
1906
no previous section The complete poetical works of Thomas Hood
next section