Thomas Hood was a British humorist and poet. His son, Tom Hood, became a well known playwright and editor.
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“No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,/ No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, - November!”
Thomas Hood
“And ye, who have met with Adversity's blast, And been bow'd to the earth by its fury; To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently pass'd Were as harsh as a prejudiced jury - Still, fill to the Future! and join in our chime, The regrets of remembrance to cozen, And having obtained a New Trial of Time, Shout in hopes of a kindlier dozen.”
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“Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!”
“A hollow voice is all I have / But this I tell you plain, / Marry come up! - you marry, Ma'am, / And I'll come up again.”
“I remember, I remember, / The house where I was born, / The little window where the sun / Came peeping in at morn.”
“A moment's thinking is an hour in words.”
“Ben Battle was a soldier bold, / And used to war's alarms: / But a cannon-ball took off his legs, / So he laid down his arms.”
“To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind”
“I saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To Silence”
“No sun - no moon! / No morn - no noon - / No dawn - no dusk - no proper time of day -”