Quote #5

There's not a string attuned to mirth But has its chord in melancholy.

More from Thomas Hood

  1. And there is ev'n a happiness That makes the heart afraid!
  2. But evil is wrought by want of thought, As well as want of heart.
  3. I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky: It was a childish ignora…
  4. I saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like Silence, listening To silence.
  5. I remember, I remember The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn; He never came a wink too soon N…
  6. Straight down the Crooked Lane, And all round the Square.
  7. His death which happened in his berth, At forty-odd befell: They went and told the sexton, and The sexton tolled the bell.
  8. Never go to France Unless you know the lingo, If you do, like me, You will repent, by jingo.

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