CONTENTS.
THE BOY AT THE NORE.
THE RUN-OVER.
JOHNSONIANA.
THE GREAT EARTHQUAKE AT MARY-LE-BONE.
ODE TO ST. SWITHIN.
THE APPARITION.
A BLIND MAN
THE SUPPER SUPERSTITION.
A SNAKE-SNACK.
A STORM AT HASTINGS AND THE LITTLE UNKNOWN.
LINES TO A LADY ON HER DEPARTURE FOR INDIA.
THE NELSON.
SONNET TO A SCOTCH GIRL, WASHING LINEN AFTER HER COUNTRY FASHION.
MY APOLOGY.
SONNET TO A DECAYED SEAMAN.
THE GREAT CONFLAGRATION.
HUGGINS AND DUGGINS.
DOMESTIC DIDACTICS. BY AN OLD SERVANT.
PAIN IN A PLEASURE-BOAT. A SEA ECLOGUE.
A SPENT BALL.
LITERARY AND LITERAL.
THE ACCIDENT.
SONNET. TO LORD WHARNCLIFFE, ON HIS GAME-BILL.
LITERARY REMINISCENCES. No. I.
ODE TO PERRY, THE INVENTOR OF THE PATENT PERRYAN PEN.
SKETCHES ON THE ROAD.
THE UNDYING ONE.
A GIPSY PARTY.
COCKLE v. CACKLE.
A LAWYER'S LETTER.
THE SWEEP'S COMPLAINT.
LETTER FROM AN OLD SPORTSMAN.
THE SUB-MARINE.
THE ISLAND.
DOG-GREL VERSES, BY A POOR BLIND.
THE KANGAROOS. A FABLE.
LITERARY REMINISCENCES. No. II.
THE DOMESTIC DILEMMA; A TRUE STORY, FROM THE GERMAN OF JEAN PAUL NEMAND.
ODE FOR THE NINTH OF NOVEMBER.
SONNET.
RONDEAU. [EXTRACTED FROM A WELL-KNOWN ANNUAL.]
LONDON FASHIONS FOR NOVEMBER. REMARKS.
SYMPTOMS OF OSSIFICATION.
THE POACHER. A SERIOUS BALLAD.
SKETCHES ON THE ROAD. THE SUDDEN DEATH.
I CANNOT BEAR A GUN.
TRIMMER'S EXERCISE, FOR THE USE OF CHILDREN.
SOME ACCOUNT OF WILLIAM WHISTON.
THE FOX AND THE HEN. A FABLE.
THE COMET. AN ASTRONOMICAL ANECDOTE.
LITERARY REMINISCENCES. No. III.
THE OCEAN. CONSIDERED PER SE.
LOVE AND LUNACY.
THOSE EVENING BELLS. "I'D BE A PARODY."
LINES TO A FRIEND AT COBHAM.
THE QUAKERS' CONVERSAZIONE.
SKETCHES ON THE ROAD. THE MORNING CALL.
THE LAMENT OF TOBY, THE LEARNED PIG.
TO A BAD RIDER.
MY SON AND HEIR.
LITERARY REMINISCENCES. No. IV.
THE CARNABY CORRESPONDENCE.
A RISE AT THE FATHER OF ANGLING.
RIGHT AND WRONG. A SKETCH AT SEA.
PATRONAGE.
ANIMAL MAGNETISM.
THE FORLORN SHEPHERD'S COMPLAINT. AN UNPUBLISHED POEM, FROM SIDNEY.
ANACREONTIC. BY A FOOTMAN.
Transcriber’s Notes
This e-text is based on the print version of The Works of Thomas Hood, Vol. II, 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.
HOOD’S OWN.
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. II.
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