Domestic Didactics
Lament for the Decline of Chivalry
Playing at Soldiers
Mary's Ghost
The Widow
An Open Question
A Black Job
Etching Moralised
A Tale of a Trumpet
The Forge
The University Feud




HOOD'S POETICAL WORKS.

TO HOPE.


Oh! take, young Seraph, take thy harp,
And play to me so cheerily;
For grief is dark, and care is sharp,
And life wears on so wearily.
Oh! take thy harp!
Oh! sing as thou wert wont to do,
When, all youth's sunny season long,
I sat and listened to thy song,
And yet 'twas ever, ever new,
With magic in its heaven-tuned string--