PREFACE.
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
PREFACE: BEING AN INAUGURAL DISCOURSE ON A CERTAIN SYSTEM OF PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY.
CONTENTS.
THE PUGSLEY PAPERS.
AN ANCIENT CONCERT. BY A VENERABLE DIRECTOR
A LETTER FROM AN EMIGRANT.
SONNET ON STEAM. BY AN UNDER-OSTLER.
A REPORT FROM BELOW!
THE LAST SHILLING.
ODE TO M. BRUNEL.
THE DEATH OF THE DOMINIE.
OVER THE WAY.
A PLAN FOR WRITING BLANK VERSE IN RHYME, IN A LETTER TO THE EDITOR.
A LETTER FROM A MARKET GARDENER TO THE SECRETARY OF THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.
DOMESTIC ASIDES; OR, TRUTH IN PARENTHESES
BLACK, WHITE, AND BROWN.
EPIGRAMS.
THE DEVIL'S ALBUM.
THE SCHOOLMASTER ABROAD.
THE LOST HEIR.
SKETCHES ON THE ROAD.
JOHN DAY. A PATHETIC BALLAD.
THE PARISH REVOLUTION.
THE FURLOUGH. AN IRISH ANECDOTE.
NUMBER ONE. VERSIFIED FROM THE PROSE OF A YOUNG LADY.
THE DROWNING DUCKS.
AN ASSENT TO THE SUMMUT OF MOUNT BLANK.
SALLY SIMPKIN'S LAMENT. OR, JOHN JONES'S KIT-CAT-ASTROPHE.
A HORSE-DEALER
THE FALL.
THE ILLUMINATI.
SONNET.
THE STEAM SERVICE.
A LAY OF REAL LIFE.
A VALENTINE. THE WEATHER. To P. M URPHY , Esq., M.N.S.
THE ELLAND MEETING.
POEM, FROM THE POLISH.
A STEP-FATHER.
CONVEYANCING.
A LETTER FROM A SETTLER FOR LIFE IN VAN DIEMEN'S LAND.
SONNET. (2)
A SERIO-COMIC REMINISCENCE.
EPICUREAN REMINISCENCES OF A SENTIMENTALIST.
SAINT MARK'S EVE. A TALE OF THE OLDEN TIME.
I'M NOT A SINGLE MAN.
A GREENWICH PENSIONER
THE BURNING OF THE LOVE LETTER.
SKETCHES ON THE ROAD. (2)
THE APPARITION.
THE DISCOVERY.
LITTLE O'P. AN AFRICAN FACT.
THE DEBUTANTE.
THE ANGLER'S FAREWELL.
POPPING THE QUESTION.
SEA SONG.
THE BLACK AND WHITE QUESTION.
STANZAS ON COMING OF AGE.
THE PILLORY.
A SINGULAR EXHIBITION AT SOMERSET HOUSE.
THE YEOMANRY.
AN UNFAVOURABLE REVIEW.
I'M GOING TO BOMBAY.
"LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP."
ODE TO THE ADVOCATES FOR THE REMOVAL OF SMITHFIELD MARKET.
DRAWN FOR A SOLDIER.
ODE FOR ST. CECILIA'S EVE.
REFLECTIONS ON WATER.
A BLOW UP.
THE WOODEN LEG.
THE GHOST. A VERY SERIOUS BALLAD.
A TALE OF THE GREAT PLAGUE.
ODE TO MADAME HENGLER, FIREWORK-MAKER TO VAUXHALL.
RHYME AND REASON.
THE DOUBLE KNOCK.
A FOXHUNTER
BAILEY BALLADS.
LINES TO MARY. (AT NO. 1, NEWGATE, FAVOURED BY MR. WONTNER.)
LETTER FROM A PARISH CLERK IN BARBADOES TO ONE IN HAMPSHIRE, WITH AN ENCLOSURE.
FRENCH AND ENGLISH.
OUR VILLAGE.
THE SCRAPE-BOOK.
A TRUE STORY.
THE SORROWS OF AN UNDERTAKER.
THE CARELESSE NURSE MAYD.
TO FANNY.
THE FANCY FAIR.
POEMS BY A POOR GENTLEMAN.
THE LIFE OF ZIMMERMANN. (BY HIMSELF).
THE PORTRAIT: BEING AN APOLOGY FOR NOT MAKING AN ATTEMPT ON MY OWN LIFE.
THE COMPASS, WITH VARIATIONS.
SUMMER A WINTER ECLOGUE.
PAIR'D NOT MATCH'D.
THE DUEL. A SERIOUS BALLAD.
THE ROPE DANCER. AN EXTRAVAGANZA, AFTER RABELAIS.
SONNET TO VAUXHALL.
ODE TO MR. MALTHUS.
A GOOD DIRECTION.
THE PLEASURES OF SPORTING.
THERE'S NO ROMANCE IN THAT!
THE ABSTRACTION.
A WATERLOO BALLAD.
MILLER REDIVIVUS.
A ZOOLOGICAL REPORT.
LITERARY REMINISCENCES.
SHOOTING PAINS.
THE SCHOOLMASTER'S MOTTO.
Transcriber’s Notes
This e-text is based on The Works of Thomas Hood, Vol. I, published in 1882. Inconsistent and uncommon spelling and hyphenation have been retained; punctuation and typographical errors have been corrected. Footnotes have been moved to the end of the sections in which their respective footnote anchors are situated.
THE WORKS
OF
THOMAS HOOD.
COMIC AND SERIOUS, IN PROSE AND VERSE, WITH ALL THE ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS.
EDITED, WITH NOTES,
BY HIS SON AND DAUGHTER.
VOL. I.
LONDON:
WARD, LOCK, & CO., WARWICK HOUSE,
SALISBURY SQUARE, E.C.
NEW YORK: 10 BOND STREET.
