Quote of the Day (Thomas Hood, on a ‘Delicious Bed’)

“Oh bed! oh bed! delicious bed!

That heaven upon earth to the weary head.”—British humorist and poet Thomas Hood (1799-1845), “Miss Kilmansegg And Her Precious Leg” (1841-43)

Quote of the Day (Thomas Hood, on ‘Autumn in the Misty Morn’)

"I saw old Autumn in the misty morn

Stand shadowless like silence, listening

To silence, for no lonely bird would sing

Into his hollow ear from woods forlorn,

Nor lowly hedge nor solitary thorn." — Thomas Hood (1799-1845), “Autumn,” from The Poetical Works Of Thomas Hood (1861)

I took the accompanying photo last fall at Nyack Beach State Park, in Rockland County, NY.

Quote of the Day (Thomas Hood, on a ‘New Trial of Time’

“And ye, who have met with Adversity’s blast,

    And been bow’d to the earth by its fury;

To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently pass’d,

    Were as harsh as a prejudiced jury,—

Still, fill to the Future! and join in our chime,

    The regrets of remembrance to cozen,

And having obtained a New Trial of Time,

    Shout in hopes of a kindlier dozen!”—British poet Thomas Hood (1799-1845), “Anacreontic For the New Year”