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The complete poetical works of Thomas Hood

Edited, with notes by Walter Jerrold
Hood, Thomas (1799-1845)

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MISCELLANEOUS UNCOLLECTED POEMS
  
FARE THEE WELL
  
ON A SLEEPING CHILD
  
[IN MEMORIAM]
  
ODE
  
ODE IMITATED FROM HORACE
  
STANZAS TO TOM WOODGATE, OF HASTINGS
  
[EPISTLE TO MISS CHARLOTTE REYNOLDS]
  
BIRTHDAY VERSES
  
THE SWEETS OF YOUTH
  
ANTICIPATION
  
THE BALLAD
  
EPIGRAM ON A PICTURE
  
ANSWER TO PAUPER
  
ODE TO SPENCER PERCEVAL, ESQ., M.P.
  
ON THE DEATH OF SIR WALTER SCOTT
  
A CHARITY SERMON
  
ODE TO SIR ANDREW AGNEW, BART.
  
ODE TO J. S. BUCKINGHAM, ESQ., M.P.
  
THE UNITED FAMILY
  
POETRY, PROSE, AND WORSE
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DOMESTIC POEMS
 I. 
I HYMENEAL RETROSPECTIONS
 II. 
II
 III. 
III A PARENTAL ODE TO MY SON, AGED THREE YEARS AND FIVE MONTHS
 IV. 
IV A SERENADE
  
JOHN JONES A PATHETIC BALLAD
  
THE DEAD ROBBERY
  
‘NAPOLEON'S MIDNIGHT REVIEW’
  
THE OLD POLER'S WARNING
  
STANZAS COMPOSED IN A SHOWER-BATH
  
CLUBS TURNED UP BY A FEMALE HAND
  
A RISE AT THE FATHER OF ANGLING
  
THE FORLORN SHEPHERD'S COMPLAINT
  
THE BEADLE'S ANNUAL ADDRESS
  
THE ASSISTANT DRAPERS' PETITION
  
LORD DURHAM'S RETURN
  
VERSES MISTAKEN FOR AN INCENDIARY SONG
  
POMPEY'S GHOST
  
AN OPEN QUESTION
  
ON A LATE IMMERSION
  
A BULL
  
A REFLECTION
  
ON A ROYAL DEMISE
  
THE PURSUIT OF LETTERS
  
EPIGRAM
  
NIGHT-SONG—WRITTEN AT SEA
  
RONDEAU
  
EPIGRAM
  
SKIPPING. A MYSTERY
  
A DREAM
  
THE CAPTAIN'S COW
  
AN EXPLANATION
  
EPIGRAM ON DR. ROBERT ELLIOT OF CAMBERWELL.
  
EPIGRAM ON A CERTAIN EQUESTRIAN STATUE
  
EPIGRAM ON THE NEW HALF-FARTHINGS
  
EPIGRAM
  
EPIGRAM
  
THE LARK AND THE ROOK
  
SUGGESTIONS BY STEAM
  
ANACREONTIC
  
THE SURPLICE QUESTION
  
EPIGRAM
  
TO MY DEAR MARIANNE
  
[SONG]
  
[WRITTEN ON THE BACK OF THE FOREGOING]
  
[FRAGMENT]
  
SIR JOHN BOWRING
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FRAGMENTS
  
Jove's Eagle Asleep
  
River of Life
  
Night
  
The Sun and Moon
  
The Moon
  
Mercury
  
A Lady
  
Morning
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JUVENILIA
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THE BANDIT
 1. 
CANTO FIRST
 2. 
CANTO SECOND
 3. 
CANTO THIRD
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APPENDIX J. H. REYNOLDS'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ‘ODES AND ADDRESSES TO GREAT PEOPLE’ (1825)
  
LINES TO MISS F. KEMBLE ON THE FLOWER SCUFFLE AT COVENT GARDEN THEATRE

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EPIGRAM

[When would-be Suicides in purpose fail—]

When would-be Suicides in purpose fail—
Who could not find a morsel though they needed—
If Peter sends them for attempts to jail,
What would he do to them if they succeeded?
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