 Spurn'd by the young, but hugg'd by the old To the very verge of the churchyard mould ; Price of many a crime untold ; Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold...  Poems - Page 177by Thomas Hood - 1857 - 388 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1841 - 578 pages
...ought to be, And they brought it in as Felo de Se, " Because her own Leg had killed her !" HER MORAL. Gold) Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and...roll'd ; Heavy to get, and light to hold ; Hoarded, barter'd, bought, and sold, Stolen, borrow'd, squander'd, doled ; Spurn'd by the young, but hugg'd... | |
 | 1842 - 376 pages
...to be, And they brought it in as Felo de Se, " Because her own Leg had killed her !" ?i)cr Jttoral. Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and...roll'd ; Heavy to get, and light to hold ; Hoarded, barter'd, bought, and sold, Stolen, borrow'd, squander'd, doled : Spurn'd by the young, but hugg'd... | |
 | 1848 - 620 pages
...thrown away, Might win for us eternal day. THE HOOT OF ALL EVIL. BT THOMAS HOOD. GOLD I gold 1 gold I gold ! Bright and yellow, hard and cold. Molten, graven,...hammer'd, and roll'd ; Heavy to get, and light to held ; Hoarded, barter'd, bought, and sold ; Stolen, borrow'd, equander'd, doled ; Spurned by the young,... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1845 - 434 pages
...ought to be, And they brought it in as Felo de Se, " Because her own Leg had killed her !" HER MORAL. Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and...roll'd ; Heavy to get, and light to hold ; Hoarded, barter'd, bought, and sold, Stolen, borrow'd, squander'd, doled : Spurn'd by the young, but hugg'd... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1845 - 442 pages
...ought to be, And they brought it in as Felo de Se, " Because her own Leg had killed her !" HER MORAL. Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and...roll'd ; Heavy to get, and light to hold ; Hoarded, barter'd, bought, and sold, Stolen, borrow'd, squander'd, doled : Spurn'd by the young, but hugg'd... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1846 - 672 pages
...ought to be, And they brought it in as Felo de Se, " Because her own Leg had killed her !" HEJl MORAL. Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and...roll'd ; Heavy to get, and light to hold ; Hoarded, barter'd, bought, and sold, Stolen, borrow'd, squander'd, doled : Spurn'd by the young, but hugg'd... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1847 - 752 pages
...naught were naughty.' The * moral' of one's living and dying for gold is thus forcibly summed up : •GOLD! Gold! Gold! Gold ! Bright and yellow, hard and cold, Molten, graven, hammer'd, and roll M ; Heavy to gt't, and light to hold ; Hoarded, barter'd, bought, and sold, Stolen, borrowed,... | |
 | 1847 - 522 pages
...moral qualities, form the motive influence of the unions. The following moral closes the poem : — " Gold, gold, gold, gold ! Bright and yellow, hard and cold ; Molten, graven, hammered, and rolled ; Heavy to get and light to hold ; Hoarded, bartered, bought, and sold ; Stolen,... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1848 - 684 pages
...more we live. THE ROOT OP ALL EVIL. GOLD! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold, Mullen, graven, hammer'd, and roll'd; Heavy to get, and light to hold; Hoarded, barter'd, bought, and sold ; Stolen, borrow'd, squander'd, doled; Spurned by the young, but hugged... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1849 - 430 pages
...from twelve till three What the Verdict ought to be, And they brought it in as Felo de Se, HER MORAL. Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and...roll'd ; Heavy to get, and light to hold ; Hoarded, barter'd, bought, and sold, Stolen, borrow'd, squander'd, doled : Spurn'd by the young, but hugg'd... | |
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