Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold!
Bright and yellow, hard and cold
Molten, graven, hammered and rolled,
Heavy to get and light to hold,
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To save - to ruin - to curse - to bless - As even its minted coins express: Now stamped with the image of Queen Bess, And now of a Mary.
After molten graven hammer and Cole after that line there is hard to get and and heavy to hold
Again he amazes me with the flow of his lines and those perfect rhymes - - I think it would do all writers good to start their day by reading a Thomas Hood poem. I enjoyed this romp through the usage of language and scorn of all that is shallow!
C.A. Morrow...Thomas Hood was a most underrated poet, this poem is so emotionally contempary.....anyone that doesn't appreciate it's subtlety obviously has language difficulties
im sorry you feel such a way toward an undeniably clever formation of word
it should be hugged by the old