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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

ON A SLEEPING CHILD

ODE IMITATED FROM HORACE

STANZAS TO TOM WOODGATE, OF HASTINGS

[EPISTLE TO MISS CHARLOTTE REYNOLDS]

BIRTHDAY VERSES

THE SWEETS OF YOUTH

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

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

AN OPEN QUESTION

ON A LATE IMMERSION

ON A ROYAL DEMISE

THE PURSUIT OF LETTERS

NIGHT-SONG—WRITTEN AT SEA

SKIPPING. A MYSTERY

THE CAPTAIN'S COW

EPIGRAM ON DR. ROBERT ELLIOT OF CAMBERWELL.

EPIGRAM ON A CERTAIN EQUESTRIAN STATUE

EPIGRAM ON THE NEW HALF-FARTHINGS

EPIGRAM

THE LARK AND THE ROOK

SUGGESTIONS BY STEAM

THE SURPLICE QUESTION

TO MY DEAR MARIANNE

[WRITTEN ON THE BACK OF THE FOREGOING]

SIR JOHN BOWRING

APPENDIX J. H. REYNOLDS'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ‘ODES AND ADDRESSES TO GREAT PEOPLE’ (1825)

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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?