Author: Thomas Hood (1799 - 1845)

Text Compilations

• Comic Annual
• Friendship's Offering
• Memorial of Thomas Hood
• The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur, and Other Poems

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• A lake and a fairy boat (A lake and a fairy boat) (from The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur, and Other Poems) - Malcolm Gordon Davidson, Thomas Frederick Dunhill, Oliver Henry Edwards, Shena Eleanor Fraser, Berta Josephine Hecker, Joseph (or Josef) Charles Holbrooke, Gustav Holst, Sidney Homer, Louis Edgar Johns, Edward Frampton Kurtz, Montague Fawcett Phillips, Walter Trinder, William Vincent Wallace, Peter Warlock
• A lake and a fairy boat (from The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur, and Other Poems) - Malcolm Gordon Davidson, Thomas Frederick Dunhill, Oliver Henry Edwards, Shena Eleanor Fraser, Berta Josephine Hecker, Joseph (or Josef) Charles Holbrooke, Gustav Holst, Sidney Homer, Louis Edgar Johns, Edward Frampton Kurtz, Montague Fawcett Phillips, Walter Trinder, William Vincent Wallace, Peter Warlock (A lake and a fairy boat)
• A lake and a fairy boat (from The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur, and Other Poems) (Song: For music)
• A spade! a rake! a hoe! (The Lay of the Laborer)
• A spade! a rake! a hoe! - Sidney Homer (The Lay of the Laborer)
• Autumn (I saw old Autumn in the misty morn) - John Charles Sacco
• Autumn (The Autumn is old) (from Friendship's Offering)
• Autumn (The Autumn is old) (from Friendship's Offering) - Frederick James Simpson
• Autumn (The Autumn skies are flush'd with gold) (from The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur, and Other Poems)
• Autumn (The Autumn skies are flush'd with gold) (from The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur, and Other Poems) - Sidney Homer, Walter Cecil Macfarren, Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir
• Ballad (It was not in the Winter)
• Ballad (She's up and gone, the graceless girl!) (from Friendship's Offering)
• Ballad (Spring it is cheery) (from The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur, and Other Poems)
• Blumen (Die schmachtende Äster will ich nicht) (from Lieder aus der Fremde: In Beiträgen von Friedrich Bodenstedt, Adolf Elissen, Ferdinand Freiligrath, usw.)
• Blumen (Die schmachtende Äster will ich nicht) (from Lieder aus der Fremde: In Beiträgen von Friedrich Bodenstedt, Adolf Elissen, Ferdinand Freiligrath, usw.) - Wenzel Theodor Bradsky, Eduard Hermes
• Der Verbannte (Heim zieht mit dem Sommer) (from Lieder aus der Fremde: In Beiträgen von Friedrich Bodenstedt, Adolf Elissen, Ferdinand Freiligrath, usw.)
• Der Verbannte (Heim zieht mit dem Sommer) (from Lieder aus der Fremde: In Beiträgen von Friedrich Bodenstedt, Adolf Elissen, Ferdinand Freiligrath, usw.) - Georg Bradsky
• Die schmachtende Äster will ich nicht (from Lieder aus der Fremde: In Beiträgen von Friedrich Bodenstedt, Adolf Elissen, Ferdinand Freiligrath, usw.) (Blumen)
• Die schmachtende Äster will ich nicht (from Lieder aus der Fremde: In Beiträgen von Friedrich Bodenstedt, Adolf Elissen, Ferdinand Freiligrath, usw.) - Wenzel Theodor Bradsky, Eduard Hermes (Blumen)
• Flowers (I will not have the mad Clytie) (from Friendship's Offering) GER GER
• For you and me (There is dew for the flow'ret) (from Memorial of Thomas Hood) - E. B. Farmer, Florence Reeves
• Heim zieht mit dem Sommer (from Lieder aus der Fremde: In Beiträgen von Friedrich Bodenstedt, Adolf Elissen, Ferdinand Freiligrath, usw.) (Der Verbannte )
• Heim zieht mit dem Sommer (from Lieder aus der Fremde: In Beiträgen von Friedrich Bodenstedt, Adolf Elissen, Ferdinand Freiligrath, usw.) - Georg Bradsky (Der Verbannte)
• How oft in families intrudes (from Comic Annual) (The united family)
• How oft in families intrudes (from Comic Annual) - John Orlando Parry (The united family)
• I love thee -- I love thee! (from Friendship's Offering) (I love thee)
• I love thee -- I love thee! (from Friendship's Offering) - Joseph H. Adams, Archibald Davidson Arnott, Arthur Bransby Burnand, Ellen Cowdell, Frederic Hymen Cowen, Sir, Dotie Davies, Mrs. André Charles Prosper Messager, Adolph Martin Foerster, William Gardiner Hammond, Gustav Holst, Bruno Siegfried Huhn, William Noel Johnson, Walter E. Loud, Ella Overbeck, John Pointer, Herbert Townsend, Theophil Wendt (I love thee)
• I love thee -- I love thee! (from Friendship's Offering) - Dotie Davies, Mrs. André Charles Prosper Messager ('Tis all that I can say)
• I love thee (I love thee -- I love thee!) (from Friendship's Offering)
• I love thee (I love thee -- I love thee!) (from Friendship's Offering) - Joseph H. Adams, Archibald Davidson Arnott, Arthur Bransby Burnand, Ellen Cowdell, Frederic Hymen Cowen, Sir, Dotie Davies, Mrs. André Charles Prosper Messager, Adolph Martin Foerster, William Gardiner Hammond, Gustav Holst, Bruno Siegfried Huhn, William Noel Johnson, Walter E. Loud, Ella Overbeck, John Pointer, Herbert Townsend, Theophil Wendt
• In time of roses (It was not in the Winter) - J. Ainslie Murray
• I remember, I remember the house where I was born (from Friendship's Offering) (I remember, I remember)
• I remember, I remember (I remember, I remember) (from Friendship's Offering)
• I remember, I remember (I remember, I remember) (from Friendship's Offering) - John Blockley, Edwin Greene, Ward Stephens
• I remember, I remember (from Friendship's Offering) (I remember, I remember)
• I remember, I remember (from Friendship's Offering) - John Blockley, Edwin Greene, Ward Stephens (I remember, I remember)
• I remember, I remember (from Friendship's Offering) - Peter Christian Lutkin, Robin Humphrey Milford, Gen Louis Parchman, Rudolph T. Werther (I remember)
• I remember (I remember, I remember) (from Friendship's Offering) - Peter Christian Lutkin, Robin Humphrey Milford, Gen Louis Parchman, Rudolph T. Werther
• I saw old Autumn in the misty morn - John Charles Sacco (Autumn)
• I saw old Autumn in the misty morn (Ode: Autumn)
• It was not in the Winter (Ballad)
• It was not in the Winter - J. Ainslie Murray (In time of roses)
• It was not in the winter (It was not in the Winter) - Arturo Buzzi-Peccia, Frederick James Simpson
• It was not in the Winter - Arturo Buzzi-Peccia, Frederick James Simpson (It was not in the winter)
• It was not in the Winter - Herbert Bunning, Thomas George Beverley Halley, Sidney Homer, Alexander Campbell MacKenzie, Sir, Hugh Stevenson Roberton, Sir, M. Scriblerus, Cedric Sharpe (It was the time of roses)
• It was not in the Winter - David Arditti, Alice Barnett, Frederic Hymen Cowen, Sir, Grace Mays, Charles Wilfred Orr, Roger Quilter, Matilda Scalé (The time of roses)
• It was not in the Winter - Eleanor Everest Freer, Alexander Paucker, T. Wallace Southam, Rudolph T. Werther (Time of roses)
• It was the time of roses (It was not in the Winter) - Herbert Bunning, Thomas George Beverley Halley, Sidney Homer, Alexander Campbell MacKenzie, Sir, Hugh Stevenson Roberton, Sir, M. Scriblerus, Cedric Sharpe
• I will not have the mad Clytie (from Friendship's Offering) GER GER (Flowers)
• I will not have the mad Clytie (from Friendship's Offering) GER GER - Joseph (or Josef) Charles Holbrooke (I will woo the rose)
• I will woo the rose (I will not have the mad Clytie) (from Friendship's Offering) - Joseph (or Josef) Charles Holbrooke GER GER
• Lady, wouldst thou heiress be (To a cold beauty)
• Lady, wouldst thou heiress be - Joseph (or Josef) Charles Holbrooke (To a cold beauty)
• Love thy mother, little one! (Love thy mother, little one!) - Cedric Sharpe
• Love thy mother, little one! - Cedric Sharpe (Love thy mother, little one!)
• Love thy mother, little one! (To a child embracing his mother)
• Mein Liebchen ist nicht Heliotrop (Mein Liebchen ist nicht Heliotrop)
• Mein Liebchen ist nicht Heliotrop (Mein Liebchen ist nicht Heliotrop) - Peter Cornelius
• Mein Liebchen ist nicht Heliotrop (Mein Liebchen ist nicht Heliotrop)
• Mein Liebchen ist nicht Heliotrop - Peter Cornelius (Mein Liebchen ist nicht Heliotrop)
• Ode: Autumn (I saw old Autumn in the misty morn)
• O'er hill, and dale, and distant sea (To an absentee)
• O'er hill, and dale, and distant sea - John David Davis, M. Stydolf, Mr. (To an absentee)
• O Lady, leave that silken thread (O Lady, leave thy silken thread) - Gustav Holst
• O Lady, leave thy silken thread - Gustav Holst (O Lady, leave that silken thread)
• O Lady, leave thy silken thread (Song)
• O Lady, leave thy silken thread - Eleanor Everest Freer (Song)
• O Lady, leave thy silken thread - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (The silken thread)
• One more Unfortunate (The bridge of sighs)
• One more Unfortunate - Reinhold Ludwig Herman (The bridge of sighs)
• Our hands have met, but not our hearts - William Vincent Wallace (Our hands have met)
• Our hands have met, but not our hearts (To a false friend)
• Our hands have met (Our hands have met, but not our hearts) - William Vincent Wallace
• Parting (We watch'd her breathing thro' the night) - Ann Sheppard Bartholomew, née Mounsey RUS
• Ruth (She stood breast high amid the corn)
• She stood breast high amid the corn (Ruth)
• She stood breast high amid the corn - Ronald A. Beckett (The Poet sings of Ruth)
• She's up and gone, the graceless girl! (from Friendship's Offering) (Ballad)
• She's up and gone, the graceless girl! (She's up and gone, the graceless girl!) (from Friendship's Offering) - M. Scriblerus
• She's up and gone, the graceless girl! (from Friendship's Offering) - M. Scriblerus (She's up and gone, the graceless girl!)
• She's up and gone, the graceless girl! (from Friendship's Offering) - Joseph (or Josef) Charles Holbrooke (She's up and gone)
• She's up and gone (She's up and gone, the graceless girl!) (from Friendship's Offering) - Joseph (or Josef) Charles Holbrooke
• Silence (There is a silence where hath been no sound) - John William Duarte, Daan Manneke, (James) Healey Willan
• Soliloquy IV (There is a silence where hath been no sound) - Philip T. Lane
• Song: For music (A lake and a fairy boat) (from The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur, and Other Poems)
• Song (O Lady, leave thy silken thread)
• Song (O Lady, leave thy silken thread) - Eleanor Everest Freer
• Song (There is dew for the flow'ret) (from Memorial of Thomas Hood)
• Song (The stars are with the voyager) (from The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur, and Other Poems)
• Sonnet: Silence (There is a silence where hath been no sound)
• Sonnet: To my wife (Think, sweetest, if my lids are now not wet)
• Spring is cheery (Spring it is cheery) (from The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur, and Other Poems) - Joseph (or Josef) Charles Holbrooke
• Spring it is cheery (from The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur, and Other Poems) (Ballad)
• Spring it is cheery (from The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur, and Other Poems) - Joseph (or Josef) Charles Holbrooke (Spring is cheery)
• Spring it is cheery (Spring it is cheery) (from The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur, and Other Poems) - Gustav Holst
• Spring it is cheery (from The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur, and Other Poems) - Gustav Holst (Spring it is cheery)
• Spring it is cheery (from The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur, and Other Poems) - (Robert) Houston Bright (What can an old man do?)
• The Autumn is old (from Friendship's Offering) (Autumn)
• The Autumn is old (from Friendship's Offering) - Frederick James Simpson (Autumn)
• The autumn is old (The Autumn is old) (from Friendship's Offering) - Gustav Holst
• The Autumn is old (from Friendship's Offering) - Gustav Holst (The autumn is old)
• The Autumn skies are flush'd with gold (from The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur, and Other Poems) (Autumn)
• The Autumn skies are flush'd with gold (from The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur, and Other Poems) - Sidney Homer, Walter Cecil Macfarren, Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir (Autumn)
• The autumn skies are flush'd with gold (The Autumn skies are flush'd with gold) (from The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur, and Other Poems) - Montague Fawcett Phillips
• The Autumn skies are flush'd with gold (from The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur, and Other Poems) - Montague Fawcett Phillips (The autumn skies are flush'd with gold)
• The bridge of sighs (One more Unfortunate)
• The bridge of sighs (One more Unfortunate) - Reinhold Ludwig Herman
• The death-bed (We watch'd her breathing thro' the night) RUS
• The exile (The swallow with summer) (from The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur, and Other Poems) GER
• The exile (The swallow with summer) (from The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur, and Other Poems) - Agnes Marie Jacobina Zimmermann GER
• The fairy queen () - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir [x]
• The Lay of the Laborer (A spade! a rake! a hoe!)
• The Lay of the Laborer (A spade! a rake! a hoe!) - Sidney Homer
• The Poet sings of Ruth (She stood breast high amid the corn) - Ronald A. Beckett
• There is a silence where hath been no sound - John William Duarte, Daan Manneke, (James) Healey Willan (Silence)
• There is a silence where hath been no sound - Philip T. Lane (Soliloquy IV)
• There is a silence where hath been no sound (Sonnet: Silence)
• There is a silence where hath been no sound - John Chorbajian (There is a silence)
• There is a silence (There is a silence where hath been no sound) - John Chorbajian
• There is dew for the flow'ret (from Memorial of Thomas Hood) - E. B. Farmer, Florence Reeves (For you and me)
• There is dew for the flow'ret (from Memorial of Thomas Hood) (Song)
• There is dew for the flow'ret (There is dew for the flow'ret) (from Memorial of Thomas Hood) - Frederic Hymen Cowen, Sir, Eaton Faning, Gustav Holst, Clara Angela Macirone, J. Matthews, Beatrice Parkyns, née Crawford, Frederick James Simpson
• There is dew for the flow'ret (from Memorial of Thomas Hood) - Frederic Hymen Cowen, Sir, Eaton Faning, Gustav Holst, Clara Angela Macirone, J. Matthews, Beatrice Parkyns, née Crawford, Frederick James Simpson (There is dew for the flow'ret)
• There is dew for the flow'ret (from Memorial of Thomas Hood) - Charles Gounod (There is dew)
• There is dew for the flow'ret (from Memorial of Thomas Hood) - Arthur Troostwyck, John Whitaker (There's love for you and me)
• There is dew (There is dew for the flow'ret) (from Memorial of Thomas Hood) - Charles Gounod
• There's love for you and me (There is dew for the flow'ret) (from Memorial of Thomas Hood) - Arthur Troostwyck, John Whitaker
• The silken thread (O Lady, leave thy silken thread) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir
• The Song of the Shirt (With fingers weary and worn)
• The song of the shirt (With fingers weary and worn) - Arthur Henry Behrend, Sidney Homer, James Howard Tully
• The stars are with the voyager (from The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur, and Other Poems) (Song)
• The stars are with the voyager (The stars are with the voyager) (from The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur, and Other Poems) - (Mary) Frances Allitsen, née Bumpus, (Robert) Houston Bright, George Howard Clutsam, Gustav Holst, Henry Festing Jones, Alexander Campbell MacKenzie, Sir, Walter Cecil Macfarren, Montague Fawcett Phillips, John Pointer, Clara Kathleen Rogers, Henry Thomas Smart, Agnes Marie Jacobina Zimmermann
• The stars are with the voyager (from The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur, and Other Poems) - (Mary) Frances Allitsen, née Bumpus, (Robert) Houston Bright, George Howard Clutsam, Gustav Holst, Henry Festing Jones, Alexander Campbell MacKenzie, Sir, Walter Cecil Macfarren, Montague Fawcett Phillips, John Pointer, Clara Kathleen Rogers, Henry Thomas Smart, Agnes Marie Jacobina Zimmermann (The stars are with the voyager)
• The stars are with the voyager (from The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur, and Other Poems) - Joseph (or Josef) Charles Holbrooke (The stars)
• The stars (The stars are with the voyager) (from The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur, and Other Poems) - Joseph (or Josef) Charles Holbrooke
• The swallow with summer (from The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur, and Other Poems) GER (The exile)
• The swallow with summer (from The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur, and Other Poems) GER - Agnes Marie Jacobina Zimmermann (The exile)
• The time of roses (It was not in the Winter) - David Arditti, Alice Barnett, Frederic Hymen Cowen, Sir, Grace Mays, Charles Wilfred Orr, Roger Quilter, Matilda Scalé
• The united family (How oft in families intrudes) (from Comic Annual)
• The united family (How oft in families intrudes) (from Comic Annual) - John Orlando Parry
• Think, sweetest, if my lids are now not wet (Sonnet: To my wife)
• Think, sweetest, if my lids are now not wet - Joseph (or Josef) Charles Holbrooke (To my wife)
• Time of roses (It was not in the Winter) - Eleanor Everest Freer, Alexander Paucker, T. Wallace Southam, Rudolph T. Werther
• 'Tis all that I can say (I love thee -- I love thee!) (from Friendship's Offering) - Dotie Davies, Mrs. André Charles Prosper Messager
• To a child embracing his mother (Love thy mother, little one!)
• To a cold beauty (Lady, wouldst thou heiress be)
• To a cold beauty (Lady, wouldst thou heiress be) - Joseph (or Josef) Charles Holbrooke
• To a false friend (Our hands have met, but not our hearts)
• To an absentee (O'er hill, and dale, and distant sea)
• To an absentee (O'er hill, and dale, and distant sea) - John David Davis, M. Stydolf, Mr.
• To my wife (Think, sweetest, if my lids are now not wet) - Joseph (or Josef) Charles Holbrooke
• U smertnogo odra = У смертного одра (Vsju noch' steregli my dykhan'e u nej = Всю ночь стерегли мы дыханье у ней)
• Vsju noch' steregli my dykhan'e u nej = Всю ночь стерегли мы дыханье у ней (У смертного одра)
• Vsju noch' steregli my dykhan'e u nej = Всю ночь стерегли мы дыханье у ней (Vsju noch' steregli my dykhan'e u nej = Всю ночь стерегли мы дыханье у ней) - Alexander Salomonovich Rasmadse
• Vsju noch' steregli my dykhan'e u nej = Всю ночь стерегли мы дыханье у ней - Alexander Salomonovich Rasmadse (Всю ночь стерегли мы дыханье у ней)
• We watch'd her breathing thro' the night RUS - Ann Sheppard Bartholomew, née Mounsey (Parting)
• We watch'd her breathing thro' the night RUS (The death-bed)
• We watch'd her breathing thro' the night RUS - William Henry Gill, Henry J. Poole, Ethel Mary Smyth, Dame (We watched her breathing through the night)
• We watch'd her breathing thro' the night RUS - Leo Kerbusch (We watched her breathing)
• We watched her breathing through the night (We watch'd her breathing thro' the night) - William Henry Gill, Henry J. Poole, Ethel Mary Smyth, Dame RUS
• We watched her breathing (We watch'd her breathing thro' the night) - Leo Kerbusch RUS
• What can an old man do? (Spring it is cheery) (from The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur, and Other Poems) - (Robert) Houston Bright
• With fingers weary and worn (The Song of the Shirt)
• With fingers weary and worn - Arthur Henry Behrend, Sidney Homer, James Howard Tully (The song of the shirt)

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