Social Commentaries
To Vauxhall
From The Comic Poems of Thomas Hood
The cold transparent ham is on my fork--
It hardly rains--and hark the bell!--ding-dingle--
Away! Three thousand feet at gravel work,
Mocking a Vauxhall shower!--Married and Single
Crush--rush;--Soak'd Silks with wet white Satin mingle.
Hengler! Madame! round whom all bright sparks lurk,
Calls audibly on Mr. and Mrs. Pringle
To study the Sublime, &c.--(vide Burke)
All Noses are upturn'd!--Whish--ish--! On high
The rocket rushes--trails--just steals in sight--
Then droops and melts in bubbles of blue light--
And Darkness reigns--Then balls flare up and die--
Wheels whiz--smack crackers--serpents twist--and then
Back to the cold transparent ham again!
Cite this poem
MLA
Hood, Thomas. “To Vauxhall.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hood/121/.
Chicago
Hood, Thomas. “To Vauxhall.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hood/121/.
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