John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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Thomas Hood. (17991845) (continued)
6074 Straight down the crooked lane, And all round the square.
A plain Direction.
6075 For my part, getting up seems not so easy By half as lying.
Morning Meditations.
6076 A man thats fond precociously of stirring Must be a spoon.
Morning Meditations.
6077 Seemd washing his hands with invisible soap In imperceptible water.
Miss Kilmansegg. Her Christening.
6078 O bed! O bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head!
Her Dream.
6079 He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way, Tormenting himself with his prickles.
Her Dream.
6080 Theres a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon. 1
Her Honeymoon.
6081 Home-made dishes that drive one from home.
Her Honeymoon.
6082 Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold.
Her Moral.
6083 Spurned by the young, but hugged by the old To the very verge of the churchyard mould.
Her Moral.
6084 How widely its agencies vary, To save, to ruin, to curse, to bless, As even its minted coins express, Now stamped with the image of Good Queen Bess, And now of a Bloody Mary.
Her Moral.
6085 Another tumble! Thats his precious nose!
Parental Ode to my infant Son.
6086 Boughs are daily rifled By the gusty thieves, And the book of Nature Getteth short of leaves.
The Season.
Note 1. See Wordsworth, page 474: The swan on still St. Marys lake Float double, swan and shadow! [back ]