Social Commentaries
On a Picture of Solomon Eagle
From The Comic Poems of Thomas Hood
Social Commentaries
Sir, let me just your tasteful eye enveigle
To yonder Painting, of the Madman Eagle.
Which, that by Poole? Excuse me, sir, I beg,
I really have no wish to catch "The Plague."
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Hood, Thomas. “On a Picture of Solomon Eagle.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hood/138/.
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Hood, Thomas. “On a Picture of Solomon Eagle.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hood/138/.
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