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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ELEGY ON THOMAS HOOD, by MARTIN FAGG
First Line: O spare a tear for poor tom hood
Last Line: To jump his mortal coil.
Subject(s): Hood, Thomas (1799-1845)
First Line: O spare a tear for poor tom hood
Last Line: To jump his mortal coil.
Subject(s): Hood, Thomas (1799-1845)
O spare a tear for poor Tom Hood,
Who, dazed by death, here lies;
His days abridged, he sighs across
The Bridge of Utmost Size.
His penchant was for punning rhymes
(Some lengthy, others — shorties);
But though his forte was his life,
He died within his forties.
The Muses cried: 'To you we give
The crown of rhymester's bay, Thos.'
Thos mused and thought that it might pay
To ladle out the pay-thos.
He spun the gold yet tangled yarn
Of sad Miss Kilmansegg;
And told how destiny contrived
To take her down a peg.
But now the weary toils of death
Have closed his rhyming toil,
And charged this very vital spark
To jump his mortal coil.
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