Text 11
Solomon Grundy
Short version
Solomon Grundy,
Born on a Monday,
Christen’d on Tuesday,
Well on Wednesday,
Took ill on Thursday,
Grew worse on Friday,
Died on Saturday,
Buried on Sunday,
That was the end of Solomon Grundy.
Long version
Solomon Grundy, born on a Monday,
Christened on a stark and stormy Tuesday,
Married on a grey and grisly Wednesday,
Took ill on a mild and mellow Thursday,
Grew worse on a bright and breezy Friday,
Died on a grey and glorious Saturday,
Buried on a baking, blistering Sunday.
That was the end of Solomon Grundy
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Papers for the Schoolmaster. March 1, 1862. No. 133. P. 134.
Text 12
Thomas Hood
No!
No sun – no moon!
No morn – no noon –
No dawn – no dusk – no proper time of day –
No sky – no earthly view –
No distance looking blue –
No road – no street – no “t’other side the way” –
No end to any Row –
No indications where the Crescents go –
No top to any steeple –
No recognitions of familiar people –
No courtesies for showing ’em! –
No knowing ’em!
No traveling at all – no locomotion,
No inkling of the way – no notion –
“No go” – by land or ocean –
No mail – no post –
No news from any foreign coast –
No Park – no Ring – no afternoon gentility –
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No company – no nobility –
No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,
No comfortable feel in any member –
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,
No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds,
November!
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Text 13
John Keats
Stanzas in a Drear-nighted December
I
In drear-nighted December,
Too happy, happy tree,
Thy branches ne’er remember
Their green felicity:
The north cannot undo them
With a sleety whistle through them
Nor frozen thawings glue them
From budding at the prime.
II
In drear-nighted December,
Too happy, happy brook,
Thy bubblings ne’er remember
Apollo’s summer look;
But with a sweet forgetting,
They stay their crystal fretting,
Never, never petting
About the frozen time.
III
Ah! would ’twere so with many
A gentle girl and boy!
But were there ever any
Writh’d not of passed joy?
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The Comic Poems of Thomas Hood / with a Preface by Thomas Hood the Younger.
London, 1873. P. 350.
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The feel of not to feel it,
When there is none to heal it
Nor numbed sense to steel it,
Was never said in rhyme
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