Thomas Hood Quotes

One more Unfortunate,
Weary of breath,
Rashly importunate,
Gone to her death!

Take her up tenderly,
Lift her with care;
Fashion’d so slenderly
Young, and so fair! - View Quote Details on One more Unfortunate,
Weary of breath,
Rashly importunate,
Gone to her death!

Take her…
But evil is wrought by want of thought,
As well as want of heart. - View Quote Details on But evil is wrought by want of thought,
As well as…
I saw old Autumn in the misty morn
Stand shadowless like Silence, listening
To silence. - View Quote Details on I saw old Autumn in the misty morn
Stand shadowless like…
That very night while gentle sleep
The urchin’s eyelids kissed,
Two stern-faced men set out from Lynn,
Through the cold and heavy mist;
And Eugene Aram walked between,
With gyves upon his wrist. - View Quote Details on That very night while gentle sleep
The urchin’s eyelids kissed,
Two stern-faced…
There’s not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy. - View Quote Details on There’s not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord…
My head was like an ardent coal,
My heart as solid ice;
My wretched, wretched soul, I knew,
Was at the Devil’s price:
A dozen times I groaned: the dead
Had never groaned but twice! - View Quote Details on My head was like an ardent coal,
My heart as solid…
And lo! the universal air
Seemed lit with ghastly flame;
Ten thousand thousand dreadful eyes
Were looking down in blame - View Quote Details on And lo! the universal air
Seemed lit with ghastly flame;
Ten thousand…
With fingers weary and worn,
With eyelids heavy and red,
A woman sat, in unwomanly rags,
Plying her needle and thread—
Stitch! stitch! stitch!
In poverty, hunger, and dirt,
And still with a voice of dolorous pitch
She sang the “Song of the Shirt.” - View Quote Details on With fingers weary and worn,
With eyelids heavy and red,
A woman…
No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,
No comfortable feel in any member—
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,
No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds—
November! - View Quote Details on No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,
No comfortable feel in…
And there is ev’n a happiness
That makes the heart afraid! - View Quote Details on And there is ev’n a happiness
That makes the heart afraid!
Oh, Men, with Sisters dear!
Oh, Men, with Mothers and Wives!
It is not linen you’re wearing out,
But human creatures’ lives! - View Quote Details on Oh, Men, with Sisters dear!
Oh, Men, with Mothers and Wives!
It…
Oh, God! that bread should be so dear,
And flesh and blood so cheap! - View Quote Details on Oh, God! that bread should be so dear,
And flesh and…
I remember, I remember
The fir-trees dark and high;
I used to think their slender tops
Were close against the sky:
It was a childish ignorance,
But now ’tis little joy
To know I’m farther off from Heaven
Than when I was a boy. - View Quote Details on I remember, I remember
The fir-trees dark and high;
I used to…
Work! work! work!
While the cock is crowing aloof!
And work—work—work,
Till the stars shine through the roof! - View Quote Details on Work! work! work!
While the cock is crowing aloof!
And work—work—work,
Till the…
Oh bed! oh bed! delicious bed!
That heaven upon earth to the weary head. - View Quote Details on Oh bed! oh bed! delicious bed!
That heaven upon earth to…
Alas! for the rarity
Of Christian charity
Under the sun! - View Quote Details on Alas! for the rarity
Of Christian charity
Under the sun!
Seem’d washing his hands with invisible soap
In imperceptible water. - View Quote Details on Seem’d washing his hands with invisible soap
In imperceptible water.
His death which happened in his berth,
At forty-odd befell:
They went and told the sexton, and
The sexton tolled the bell. - View Quote Details on His death which happened in his berth,
At forty-odd befell:
They went…