 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, borrowed, squandered, doled : Spurned by the young, but hugged by the old To...  The Works of Thomas Hood...: Complete poetical works - Page 306by Thomas Hood - 1861Full 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 cold, Molten, graven, hammer'd, and roll'd ; Heavy to get, and light to hold ; Hoarded, barter'd, bought, and sold, Stolen,... | |
 | 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 cold, Molten, graven, hammer'd, and roll'd ; Heavy to get, and light to hold ; Hoarded, barter'd, bought, and sold, Stolen,... | |
 | 1848 - 620 pages
...bought, and sold ; Stolen, borrow'd, equander'd, doled ; Spurned by the young, but hugged by the oM, To the very verge of the church-yard mould ; Price of many a crime untold, Gold ! gold I gold I gold ! Good or bad a tliousand fold. How widely its agencies vary ; To save, to ruin, to curse,... | |
 | 1876 - 818 pages
...it very well, in his own peculiar way, when he wrote — " Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and y How, hard and cold, Molten, graven, hammered and rolled,...Heavy to get and light to hold ; Hoarded, bartered, borrowed, and doled ; Spurn ed by the young, but hugged by the old To the very verge of the churchyard... | |
 | 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 cold, Molten, graven, hammer'd, and roll'd ; Heavy to get, and light to hold ; Hoarded, barter'd, bought, and sold, Stolen,... | |
 | 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 cold, Molten, graven, hammer'd, and roll'd ; Heavy to get, and light to hold ; Hoarded, barter'd, bought, and sold, Stolen,... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1845 - 336 pages
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 | 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 cold, Molten, graven, hammer'd, and roll'd ; Heavy to get, and light to hold ; Hoarded, barter'd, bought, and sold, Stolen,... | |
 | 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...borrowed, squandered, doled ; Spurned by the young, and hugged by the old, To the very verge of the church-yard mould ; Price of many a crime untold ;... | |
 | 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,... | |
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