Thomas Hood

Thomas Hood

May 23, 1799 - May 3, 1845

 

To Fancy

by Thomas Hood

Most delicate Ariel! submissive thing,
Won by the mind's high magic to its hest, --
Invisible embassy, or secret guest, --
Weighing the light air on a lighter wing; --
Whether into the midnight moon, to bring
Illuminate visions to the eye of rest, --
Or rich romances from the florid West, --
Or to the sea, for mystic whispering, --
Still by thy charmed allegiance to the will
The fruitful wishes prosper in the brain,
As by the fingering of fairy skill, --
Moonlight, and waters, and soft music's strain,
Odors, and blooms, and my Miranda's smile,
Making this dull world an enchanted isle.

Source:

The Poetical Works Of Thomas Hood
Copyright 1861
Boston: Crosby, Nichols, Lee and Company
 

Recommended Works

From all these mounds, though day blows fresh and warm, - Anne WhitneyKeats's Last Sonnet - John KeatsPatience Taught By Nature - Elizabeth Barrett BrowningTo Sleep - John KeatsI know this spirit bridges unknown space... - Anne WhitneyThe Meaning Of The Look - Elizabeth Barrett BrowningFalse Poets And True - Thomas HoodTo The Ocean - Thomas HoodAfter dark vapors have oppress'd our plains ... - John KeatsPast And Future - Elizabeth Barrett BrowningAddressed To The Same - John KeatsSonnet To A Sonnet - Thomas HoodO fair mistrust of earth's more solid shows... - Anne WhitneyDark rolling clouds in wild confusion driven... - Caroline Bowles SoutheyTo A Young Lady Who Sent Me A Laurel Crown. - John KeatsLargess from seven-fold heavens, I pray, descend... - Anne WhitneyOf better fortune coming, then, talk not... - Anne WhitneyAlas! and yesternight I woke in terror, - Anne WhitneyIn the still hours, a stiller strength was born - Anne WhitneyOn Leigh Hunt's Poem, The Story Of Rimini. - John KeatsBy every sweet tradition of true hearts,... - Thomas HoodKeen Fitful Gusts Are Whispering Here And There - John KeatsConsolation - Elizabeth Barrett BrowningGrief - Elizabeth Barrett BrowningTO G. A. W. - John KeatsTo J. H. Reynolds - John KeatsOn Seeing The Elgin Marbles - John KeatsWithin my life another life runs deep, - Anne WhitneyExaggeration - Elizabeth Barrett BrowningOn Sitting Down To Read King Lear Once Again. - John KeatsStoop low, dear Night, a little star-breeze wakes - Anne WhitneyBereavement - Elizabeth Barrett BrowningAdequacy - Elizabeth Barrett BrowningTo The Same - Anne WhitneyThe Same (Might we make quest ...) - Anne WhitneySo reed-like fragile, in the world's whirl nought... - Anne WhitneyDarkness surrounds me with its phantom hosts... - Anne WhitneyWhen I have fears that I may cease to be ... - John KeatsCheerfulness Taught By Reason - Elizabeth Barrett BrowningO Mankind's God! most silent and most lowly - Anne WhitneyAnswer To A Sonnet Ending Thus: -- - John KeatsWork And Contemplation - Elizabeth Barrett BrowningTo ____. (My heart is sick with longing, though I feed) - Thomas HoodHow many bards gild the lapses of time! - John KeatsPerplexed Music - Elizabeth Barrett BrowningIrreparableness - Elizabeth Barrett BrowningThe Two Sayings - Elizabeth Barrett BrowningAddressed To Haydon - John KeatsOn Fame (How fever'd is the man, who cannot look ...) - John KeatsTo one who has been long in city pent, ... - John KeatsO high-born souls, such as God sends to mould... - Anne WhitneyThe Look - Elizabeth Barrett BrowningHappy is England! I could be content ... - John KeatsOn Receiving A Gift - Thomas HoodLear - Thomas HoodIf by dull rhymes our English must be chain'd ... - John KeatsTo Fancy - Thomas HoodThe Human Seasons - John KeatsIt is not death, that sometime in a sigh... - Thomas HoodThe Passion Flower - Anne WhitneyTo George Sand: A Desire - Elizabeth Barrett BrowningOn Fame (Fame, like a wayward girl, will still be coy ...). - John KeatsPain In Pleasure - Elizabeth Barrett BrowningAnd for that thou art Beauty, and thy name... - Anne WhitneyTo Ailsa Rock - John KeatsThe day is gone, and all its sweets are gone! ... - John KeatsOn A Picture Of Leander - John KeatsTo _. (Had I a man's fair form, then might my sighs ...) - John KeatsTo The Nile - John KeatsWritten On The Day That Mr. Leigh Hunt Left Prison - John KeatsAn Apprehension - Elizabeth Barrett BrowningOh! how I love, on a fair summer's eve, ... - John KeatsOn A Portrait Of Wordsworth - Elizabeth Barrett BrowningTo A Sleeping Child - Thomas HoodOn First Looking Into Chapman's Homer - John KeatsOn Leaving Some Friends At An Early Hour - John KeatsI dreamed an angel, Angel twice, through death... - Anne WhitneyTo Homer - John KeatsFuturity - Elizabeth Barrett BrowningO solitude! if I must with thee dwell, - John KeatsNo slight caprice rules thee. -- Who sounds one note... - Anne WhitneyTo An Enthusiast - Thomas HoodTo Kosciusko - John KeatsThe Soul's Expression - Elizabeth Barrett BrowningRead me a lesson, Muse, and speak it loud - John KeatsThe Seraph And Poet - Elizabeth Barrett BrowningWork (What are we set on earth for? ...) - Elizabeth Barrett BrowningTo George Sand: A Recognition - Elizabeth Barrett BrowningNight - Anne WhitneyContinence - Anne WhitneyComfort (Speak low to me, my Saviour, low and sweet ...) - Elizabeth Barrett BrowningThe world is with me, and its many cares... - Thomas HoodThe Same (Twas then we said...) - Anne WhitneyI cry your mercy -- pity -- love -- ay, love ... - John KeatsWritten In The Cottage Where Burns Was Born - John KeatsTo _. (Time's sea hath been five years at its low ebb, ...) - John KeatsTo Haydon - John KeatsThe Prisoner - Elizabeth Barrett BrowningYet are there sunbeams, though the kingly sun... - Anne WhitneyDiscontent - Elizabeth Barrett BrowningFor The Fourteenth Of February - Thomas HoodThou seem'st to solve the eternal unity... - Anne WhitneyInsufficiency - Elizabeth Barrett BrowningO night, a terrible dismay still lurks... - Anne WhitneyA Thought For A Lonely Death-Bed - Elizabeth Barrett BrowningThis pleasant tale is like a little copse: ... - John KeatsC. L'E. - Anne WhitneyTears - Elizabeth Barrett BrowningTo A Friend Who Sent Me Some Roses - John KeatsTo My Brother - John KeatsWhy did I laugh to-night? - John KeatsOn The Grasshopper And Cricket - John KeatsOn The Sea - John KeatsHow bravely Autumn paints upon the sky - Thomas HoodSubstitution - Elizabeth Barrett BrowningTo My Brother George - John KeatsTo The Spirit - Anne WhitneyOn A Dream - John KeatsThree Flowers - Thomas Bailey Aldrich