Quotes by Thomas Hood

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Poet and humorist · English · 1799–1845

English poet and humorist (1799–1845)

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“And lo! the universal airSeemed lit with ghastly flame;Ten thousand thousand dreadful eyesWere looking down in blame.”
— Thomas Hood

“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 deadHad never groaned but twice!”
— Thomas Hood

“That very night while gentle sleepThe 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.”
— Thomas Hood