Thomas Hood

1799–1845

Best-known poems

• The Bridge of Sighs

  One more Unfortunate,
  Weary of breath,
  Rashly importunate, …

• The Song of the Shirt

  With fingers weary and worn,
  With eyelids heavy and red,
  A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, …

• Faithless Nelly Gray

  A Pathetic Ballad
  BEN BATTLE was a soldier bold,
  And used to war’s alarms; …

• “I remember, I remember”

  I Remember, I remember
  The house where I was born,
  The little window where the sun …

• Silence

  There is a silence where hath been no sound,
  There is a silence where no sound may be,
  In the cold grave—under the deep, deep sea, …

• Time of Roses

  It was not in the Winter
  Our loving lot was cast;
  It was the time of roses— …

All poems (22)

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