THE

POETICAL WORKS

OF

THOMAS HOOD.

WITH A MEMOIR.

VOL. I.

NEW YORK:
JAMES MILLER, 522 BROADWAY.

1867.

Pago

VOL. I.

MEMOJE OF THE AUTHOR.

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The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies

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Hero and Leander...

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Lycus, the Centaur..

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The Two Peacocks of Bedfont..

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The Two Swans..

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The Dream of Eugene Aram.....

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The Elm Tree.

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The Haunted House..

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The Bridge of Sighs.

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X**The Song of the Shirt.

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The Lady's Dream..

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The Workhouse Clock,

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The Lay of the Labourer

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The Lee-Shore.

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The Death-Bed...

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Lines on seeing my wife and two Children sleeping

in the same Chamber.

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To my Daughter on her Birthday.

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To a Child embracing his Mother.

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To a False Friend..

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The Poet's Portion.

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Time, Hope, and Memory

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Flowers .

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Composed at Rotterdam.

Serenade

Verses in an Album

Ballad.

Ballad.

Ballad.

Ballad.

The Romance of Cologne..

The Key; A Moorish Romance.

Fair Ines....

The Departure of Summer.

Ode: Autumn..

Autumn.........

Autumn.

Song: for Music..

Song...

Hymn to the Sun..

To a Cold Beauty.

Ruth..

The Sea of Death.

I Remember, I Remember.

The Water Lady.

The Exile...

To an Absentee.

Ode to the Moon.

The Forsaken.

Ode to Melancholy

On a Native Singer.

Guido and Marina.

· Answer to a Lady.

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SONNETS.

To the Ocean...

Lear

Sonnet to a Sonnet.

False Poets and True.

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For the 14th of February

To a Sleeping Child..

To a Sleeping Child...,

“ The world is with me and its many cares.".

Written in a Volume of Shakspeare...

To Fancy...

To an Enthusiast.

" It is not death, that sometime in a sigh.

“By ev'ry sweet tradition of true hearts.".

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