Poetical Works of Thomas Hood
Thomas Hood
179 chapters · 19 h 29 min · English
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This is a collection of Thomas Hood's poems. Hood was an eminent British poet, regarded in particular for his humorous poetry, as well as his weird and fantastic poems. As William Michael Rossetti writes in his biographical sketch of Hood, "A man of such a faculty and such a habit of work could scarcely, in all instances, keep himself within the bounds of good taste - a term which people are far too ready to introduce into serious discussions, for the purpose of casting disparagement upon some work which transcends the ordinary standards of appreciation, but a term nevertheless which has its important meaning and its true place. Hood is too often like a man grinning awry, or interlarding serious and beautiful discourse with a nod, a wink, or a leer, neither requisite nor convenient as auxiliaries to his speech: and to do either of these things is to fail in perfect taste. Sometimes, not very often, we are allowed to reach the close of a poem of his without having our attention jogged and called off by a single interpolation of this kind; and then we feel unalloyed, what we constantly feel also even under the contrary conditions, how exquisite a poetic sense and how choice a cunning of hand were his. On the whole, we can pronounce Hood the finest English poet between the generation of Shelley and the generation of Tennyson." - Summary by Carolin
Chapters
1 Biographical Introduction by William Michael Rossetti, part 1 19 min 2 Biographical Introduction by William Michael Rossetti, part 2 18 min 3 To Hope 3 min 4 The Departure of Summer 8 min 5 The Sea of Death 3 min 6 To an Absentee 1 min 7 Lycus the Centaur 27 min 8 The Two Peacocks of Bedfont 15 min 9 Hymn to the Sun 1 min 10 Midnight 1 min 11 To a Sleeping Child 2 min 12 To Fancy 1 min 13 Fair Ines 3 min 14 To a False Friend 1 min 15 Ode - Autumn 3 min 16 Sonnet - Silence 1 min 17 Sonnet 1 min 18 Sonnet - to an Enthusiast 1 min 19 To a Cold Beauty 1 min 20 Sonnet - Death 1 min 21 Serenade 1 min 22 Verses in an Album 1 min 23 The Forsaken 2 min 24 Song 1 min 25 Song 1 min 26 Birthday Verses 1 min 27 I Love Thee 1 min 28 Lines 1 min 29 False Poets and True 1 min 30 The Two Swans 19 min 31 Ode on a Distant Prospect of Clapham Academy 7 min 32 Song 1 min 33 The Water Lady 1 min 34 Autumn 1 min 35 I Remember, I Remember! 2 min 36 The Poet's Portion 2 min 37 Ode to the Moon 5 min 38 Sonnet 1 min 39 A Retrospective Review 6 min 40 Ballad 1 min 41 Time, Hope and Memory 2 min 42 Flowers 1 min 43 Ballad 2 min 44 Ruth 1 min 45 The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, I 20 min 46 The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, II 20 min 47 The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, III 20 min 48 Hero and Leander, I 16 min 49 Hero and Leander, II 15 min 50 Hero and Leander, III 13 min 51 Ballad 2 min 52 Autumn 1 min 53 Ballad 3 min 54 The Exile 1 min 55 To - 2 min 56 Ode to Melancholy 8 min 57 Sonnet - to my Wife 1 min 58 Sonnet on Receiving a Gift 1 min 59 Two Sonnets 3 min 60 The Dream of Eugene Aram 9 min 61 Sonnet - for the 14th of February 1 min 62 The Death-Bed 1 min 63 Anticipation 2 min 64 To a Child Embracing his Mother 2 min 65 Stanzas 1 min 66 Sonnet to Ocean 1 min 67 To - 3 min 68 Lines 1 min 69 Stanzas 1 min 70 Ode to Rae Wilson, Esq 29 min 71 To my Daughter 2 min 72 Miss Kelmansegg and her Precious Leg - Her Pedigree and Her Christening 18 min 73 Miss Kelmansegg and her Precious Leg - Her Childhood and Her Education 9 min 74 Miss Kelmansegg and her Precious Leg - Her Accident and Her Fame 16 min 75 Miss Kelmansegg and her Precious Leg - Her First Step and Her Fancy Ball 16 min 76 Miss Kelmansegg and her Precious Leg - Her Dream and Her Courtship 16 min 77 Miss Kelmansegg and her Precious Leg - Her Marriage and Her Honeymoon 24 min 78 Miss Kelmansegg and her Precious Leg - Her Misery, Her Last Will, and Her Death 17 min 79 The Lee Shore 1 min 80 Sonnet 1 min 81 The Elm Tree 18 min 82 Lear 1 min 83 Sonnet 1 min 84 The Song of the Shirt 5 min 85 The Pauper's Christmas Carol 3 min 86 The Haunted House 18 min 87 The Mary 5 min 88 The Lady's Dream 5 min 89 The Key 6 min 90 The Workhouse Clock 4 min 91 The Bridge of Sighs 4 min 92 The Lay of the Laborer 6 min 93 Stanzas 1 min 94 Ode to Mr. Graham 13 min 95 A Friendly Address to Mrs. Fry in Newgate 11 min 96 Ode to Richard Martin, Esq 5 min 97 Ode to the Great Unknown 17 min 98 Ode to Joseph Grimaldi, Senior 7 min 99 An Address to the Steam Washing Company and Letter of Remonstrance 19 min 100 Ode to Captain Parry 10 min 101 Ode to W. Kitchener, M. D 12 min 102 The Last Man 12 min 103 Faithless Sally Brown 3 min 104 As it Fell Upon a Day 2 min 105 The Stag-eyed Lady 10 min 106 The Irish Schoolmaster 19 min 107 Faithless Nelly Gray 4 min 108 Bianca's Dream 17 min 109 The Demon-ship 6 min 110 Tim Turpin 3 min 111 Death's Ramble 3 min 112 A Sailor's Apology for Bow-Legs 6 min 113 The Volunteer 5 min 114 The Epping Hunt 25 min 115 The Drowning Ducks 5 min 116 A Storm at Hastings 16 min 117 Lines to a Lady 3 min 118 The Angler's Farewell 4 min 119 Ode - to the Advocates for the Removal of Smithfield Market 6 min 120 A Report from Below 7 min 121 'I'm not a Single Man' 3 min 122 The Supper Superstition 4 min 123 The Duel 3 min 124 A Singular Exhibition at Somerset House 6 min 125 Lines to Mary 3 min 126 The Compass with Variations 10 min 127 The Ghost 3 min 128 The Fall 3 min 129 Our Village 5 min 130 A Public Dinner 5 min 131 Sally Simpkin's Lament 2 min 132 Ode to Sir Andrew Agnew, Bart 6 min 133 The Lost Heir 7 min 134 The Fox and the Hen 4 min 135 The Poacher 3 min 136 A Waterloo Ballad 5 min 137 A Lay of Real Life 3 min 138 The Sweep's Complaint 7 min 139 The Desert-Born 17 min 140 Agricultural Distress 8 min 141 Domestic Poems 7 min 142 The Green Man 9 min 143 Hit or Miss 13 min 144 The Forlorn Shepherd's Complaint 4 min 145 Lieutenant Luff 4 min 146 Morning Meditations 2 min 147 A Plain Direction 5 min 148 The Assistant Drapers' Petition 4 min 149 The Bachelor's Dream 4 min 150 Rural Felicity 7 min 151 A Flying Visit 8 min 152 Queen Mab 2 min 153 To Henrietta 4 min 154 A Parthian Glance 4 min 155 A True Story 10 min 156 The Mermaid of Margate 6 min 157 A Fairy Tale 6 min 158 Craniology 5 min 159 The Wee Man 3 min 160 The Progress of Art 5 min 161 Those Evening Bells 1 min 162 The Carelesse Nurse Mayd 1 min 163 Domestic Asides 2 min 164 Shooting Pains 5 min 165 John Day 4 min 166 Huggins and Duggins 5 min 167 The China-Mender 5 min 168 Domestic Didactics 6 min 169 Lament for the Decline of Chivalry 4 min 170 Playing at Soldiers 4 min 171 Mary's Ghost 2 min 172 The Widow 6 min 173 An Open Question 8 min 174 A Black Job 11 min 175 Etching Moralised 13 min 176 A Tale of a Trumpet, I 21 min 177 A Tale of a Trumpet, II 18 min 178 The Forge 21 min 179 The University Feud 9 min
