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The Comic Poems of Thomas Hood

by Thomas Hood

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Hood’s Poetical Works. ———— Comic. ————
  3. 3A Tale of Temper
  4. 4The Captain’s Cow — A Romance of the Iron Age
  5. 5The Doves and the Crows
  6. 6A Tale of a Trumpet
  7. 7An Open Question
  8. 8The Turtles — A Fable
  9. 9Town and Country
  10. 10The Lost Heir
  11. 11She Is Far From the Land
  12. 12Anacreontic. By a Footman
  13. 13The Forlorn Shepherd’s Complaint — An Unpublished Poem, From Sydney
  14. 14Huggins and Duggins — A Pastoral After Pope
  15. 15Pain in a Pleasure-Boat — A Sea Eclocue
  16. 16Gog and Magog — A Guildhall Duet
  17. 17The Sweep’s Complaint
  18. 18The Carelesse Nurse Mayd
  19. 19Jarvis and Mrs. Cope — A Decidedly Serious Ballad
  20. 20A Lay of Real Life
  21. 21The Lark and the Rook — A Fable
  22. 22A Nocturnal Sketch
  23. 23Domestic Asides; or, Truth in Parentheses
  24. 24John Day — A Pathetic Ballad
  25. 25Number One — Versified From the Prose of a Young Lady
  26. 26The Drowning Ducks
  27. 27Dibdin Modernized
  28. 28The Storm — Re-Written
  29. 29I’m Not a Single Man
  30. 30The Ghost — A Very Serious Ballad
  31. 31The Double Knock
  32. 32Our Village — By a Villager
  33. 33Pair’d Not Match’d
  34. 34The Boy at the Nore
  35. 35The Supper Superstition — A Pathetic Ballad
  36. 36The Broken Dish
  37. 37Literary and Literal
  38. 38“Love Lays and Lyrics by APIG.”
  39. 39The Sub-Marine
  40. 40The Lament of Toby, the Learned Pig
  41. 41My Son and Heir
  42. 42Clubs, Turned Up by a Female Hand
  43. 43The United Family
  44. 44The Dead Robbery
  45. 45A Parental Ode to My Son, Aged Three Years and Five Months
  46. 46A Serenade
  47. 47An Incendiary Song
  48. 48Copy — A New Species of Poetry
  49. 49Skipping. A Mystery
  50. 50A Butcher
  51. 51A Public Dinner
  52. 52A Charity Sermon
  53. 53The China Mender
  54. 54On a Picture of Hero and Leander
  55. 55Miss Fanny’s Farewell Flowers
  56. 56The Stage-Struck Hero
  57. 57Ye Tourists and Travellers
  58. 58Rural Felicity
  59. 59The Doctor — A Sketch
  60. 60Laying Down the Law
  61. 61A Black Job
  62. 62A Discovery in Astronomy
  63. 63The Sausage Maker’s Ghost — A London Legend
  64. 64To Joseph Hume, Esq., M.P.
  65. 65To Admiral Gambier, G.C.B.
  66. 66To Spencer Perceval, Esq., M.P.
  67. 67To Miss Kelly. On Her Opening the Strand Theatre
  68. 68To Doctor Hahnemann — The Homœopathist
  69. 69To the Advocates for the Removal of Smithfield Market
  70. 70To Mary at No. 1, Newgate — Favoured by Mr. Wontner
  71. 71To Fanny
  72. 72To Mr. Malthus
  73. 73To St. Swithin
  74. 74Lines to a Lady on Her Departure for India
  75. 75Sir John Bowring
  76. 76To Mr. M‘Adam
  77. 77A Friendly Epistle to Mrs. Fry, in Newgate
  78. 78To Mr. Dymoke — The Champion of England
  79. 79To Joseph Grimaldi, Senior
  80. 80To Sylvanus Urban, Esq., Editor of the “Gentleman’s Magazine”
  81. 81To W. Kitchener, M.D.
  82. 82To the Dean and Chapter of Westminster
  83. 83On an Unfavourable Review
  84. 84To Peace. Written on the Night of My Mistress’s Grand Rout
  85. 85For the Ninth of November
  86. 86On the Celebration of Peace. By Dorcas Dove
  87. 87To Mr. Isaak Walton, at Mr. Major’s the Bookseller’s in Fleet Street
  88. 88To Mary Housemaid. On Valentine’s Day
  89. 89To a Bad Rider
  90. 90To a Critic
  91. 91The Sweets of Youth
  92. 92To Henrietta, on Her Departure for Calais
  93. 93Hints to Paul Pry
  94. 94On Steam. By an Under-Hostler
  95. 95Allegory — A Moral Vehicle
  96. 96A Somnambulist
  97. 97To Vauxhall
  98. 98To a Scotch Girl, Washing Linen After Her Country Fashion
  99. 99To a Decayed Seaman
  100. 100To Lord Wharncliffe, on His Game-Bill
  101. 101Lieutenant Luff — A Comic Ballad
  102. 102Love Has Not Eyes
  103. 103A Happy New Year!
  104. 104Sea-Song. After Dibdin
  105. 105Reflections on a New Year’s Day
  106. 106Written Under the Fear of Bailiffs
  107. 107A Few Lines on Completing Forty-seven
  108. 108A Bull
  109. 109On the Death of the Giraffe · On the Removal of a Menagerie — On He…
  110. 110On the Statues in Trafalgar Square
  111. 111On a Picture (407) in the British Institution, 1843
  112. 112Heart-Springs · Change of Ministry — A Pig in a Poke
  113. 113Composed on Reading a Diary
  114. 114The Pursuit of Letters
  115. 115A Reflection — Laying the Dust
  116. 116The Superiority of Machinery
  117. 117Party Spirit
  118. 118Lord B ——
  119. 119Traitors’ Aims
  120. 120On a Certain Locality · On the Art-Unions — A Morning Thought
  121. 121On a Certain Equestrian Statue at the Royal Exchange
  122. 122On a Daguerreotype Portrait of a Lady
  123. 123Suggestions by Steam
  124. 124Punishment of Suicides
  125. 125Athol Brose — On the Depreciated Money
  126. 126On Mrs. Parkes’s Pamphlet
  127. 127An Explanation by One of the Livery
  128. 128On the New Half-farthings
  129. 129The Surplice Question. By a Benedict
  130. 130The Epping Hunt — “Hunt’s Roasted—”
  131. 131Jack Hall
  132. 132Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg — A Golden Legend
  133. 133John Trot — A Ballad
  134. 134The Widow
  135. 135“Don’t You Smell Fire?”
  136. 136The Wee Man — A Romance
  137. 137“The Last Man”
  138. 138Backing the Favourite
  139. 139The Ballad of “Sally Brown and Ben the Carpenter”
  140. 140Faithless Sally Brown
  141. 141Love
  142. 142As It Fell Upon a Day
  143. 143A Fairy Tale
  144. 144The Fall of the Deer. [From an Old Ms.]
  145. 145Tim Turpin, a Pathetic Ballad
  146. 146The Monkey-Martyr — A Fable
  147. 147Craniology
  148. 148A Sailor’s Apology for Bow-Legs
  149. 149The Stag-eyed Lady — A Moorish Tale
  150. 150Faithless Nelly Gray — A Pathetic Ballad
  151. 151The Sea-Spell
  152. 152The Demon-Ship
  153. 153Mary’s Ghost — A Pathetic Ballad
  154. 154Ode to Mr. Brunel
  155. 155Anacreontic. For the New Year
  156. 156A Waterloo Ballad
  157. 157Cockle V. Cackle
  158. 158Playing at Soldiers. “Who’ll Serve the King?”
  159. 159“Napoleon’s Midnight Review.” — A New Version
  160. 160Ode to Dr. Kitchener
  161. 161The Cigar
  162. 162An Ancient Concert. By a Venerable Director
  163. 163A Report From Below
  164. 164The Last Wish
  165. 165The Devil’s Album
  166. 166A Valentine — The Weather. To P. Murphy, Esq., M.N.S.
  167. 167Conveyancing
  168. 168The Angler’s Farewell
  169. 169A Blow Up
  170. 170The Schoolmaster’s Motto
  171. 171The Kangaroos — A Fable
  172. 172I Cannot Bear a Gun
  173. 173Trimmer’s Exercise, for the Use of Children
  174. 174An Address to the Steam Washing Company
  175. 175Letter of Remonstrance From Bridget Jones to the Noblemen and Gentl…
  176. 176The Blue Boar
  177. 177A Flying Visit
  178. 178A Row at the Oxford Arms
  179. 179A Table of Errata. (Hostess Loquitur.)
  180. 180The Green Man
  181. 181Ben Bluff — A Pathetic Ballad
  182. 182Sally Simpkin’s Lament; or, John Jones’s Kit-Cat-Astrophe
  183. 183I’m Going to Bombay
  184. 184John Jones — A Pathetic Ballad
  185. 185Pompey’s Ghost — A Pathetic Ballad
  186. 186To Mr. Wrench at the English Opera House
  187. 187Love, With a Witness
  188. 188Lines by a School-Boy
  189. 189Address to Maria Darlington on Her Return to the Stage
  190. 190Ode to R. W. Elliston, Esq., the Great Lessee!
  191. 191Shooting Pains
  192. 192The Duel — A Serious Ballad
  193. 193Dog-Grel Verses, by a Poor Blind
  194. 194“Up the Rhine”
  195. 195The Comet — An Astronomical Anecdote
  196. 196More Hullah-Baloo
  197. 197There’s No Romance in That
  198. 198The Painter Puzzled
  199. 199A True Story
  200. 200The Logicians — An Illustration
  201. 201Little O’P — An African Fact
  202. 202The Assistant Drapers’ Petition
  203. 203Symptoms of Ossification
  204. 204A Custom-House Breeze

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