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Thomas Hood
1799 - 1845
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A Black Job
"No doubt the pleasure is as great, / Of being cheated as to cheat." - HUDIBRAS. / The history of human-kind to trace,
A Fairy Tale
On Hounslow Heath - and close beside the road, / As western travellers may oft have seen, - / A little house some years ago there stood,
A Few Lines On Completing Forty-Seven
When I reflect with serious sense, / While years and years run on, / How soon I may be summoned hence -
A Flying Visit
"A Calendar! a Calendar! look in the Almanac, find out moonshine - find out moonshine!" - . / I. / The by-gone September,
A Friendly Address To Mrs. Fry In Newgate
A Address To Mrs. Fry Newgate. / "Sermons in stones." - / "Out! out! damned spot!" -
A Lay Of Real Life
"Some are born with a wooden spoon in their mouths, / and some with a golden ladle." GOLDSMITH. / "Some are born with tin rings in their noses, and
A Parental Ode To My Son, Aged Three Years And Five Months
Thou happy, happy elf! / (But stop, - first let me kiss away that tear) - / Thou tiny image of myself!
A Parthian Glance
"Sweet Memory, wafted by thy gentle gale, / Oft up the stream of time I turn my sail." - ROGERS. / Come, my Crony, let's think upon far-away days,
A Plain Direction
"Do you never deviate?" / . / In London once I lost my way
A Public Dinner
"Sit down and fall to, said the Barmecide." / . / At seven you just nick it,
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