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Thomas Hood
1799 - 1845
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An Address To The Steam Washing Company
"Archer. How many are there, ?" / "Scrub. Five-and-forty, Sir." . / "For shame - let the linen alone!" .
An Open Question
"It is the king's highway that we are in, and in this way it is that thou hast placed the lions." - BUNYAN. / What! shut the gardens; lock the latticed gate! / Refuse the shilling and the Fellow's ticket!
As It Fell Upon A Day
Oh! what's befallen Bessy Brown, / She stands so squalling in the street; / She's let her pitcher tumble down,
Ballad
Spring it is cheery, / Winter is dreary, / Green leaves hang, but the brown must fly;
Bianca's Dream. - A Venetian Story
I. / Bianca! - fair Bianca! - who could dwell / With safety on her dark and hazel gaze,
Birthday Verses
Good morrow to the golden morning, / Good morrow to the world's delight - / I've come to bless thy life's beginning,
Craniology
'Tis strange how like a very dunce, / Man - with his bumps upon his sconce, / Has lived so long, and yet no knowledge he
Death's Ramble
One day the dreary old King of Death / Inclined for some sport with the carnal, / So he tied a pack of darts on his back,
Domestic Asides; Or, Truth In Parentheses
"I really take it very kind, / This visit, Mrs. Skinner! / I have not seen you such an age -
Etching Moralised. To A Noble Lady
"To point a moral." - JOHNSON. / Fairest Lady and Noble, for once on a time, / Condescend to accept, in the humblest of rhyme,
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