Social Commentaries

To Vauxhall

by Thomas Hood 1799–1845

From The Comic Poems of Thomas Hood

Social Commentaries

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!

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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