My head was like an ardent coal, My heart as solid ice; My … - Thomas Hood

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My head was like an ardent coal,
My heart as solid ice;
My wretched, wretched soul, I knew,
Was at the Devil's price:
A dozen times I groaned: the dead
Had never groaned but twice!

Thomas Hood

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Thomas Hood (May 23, 1799 – May 3, 1845) was an English humorist and poet.

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And there is ev'n a happiness
That makes the heart afraid!

I remember, I remember
The fir-trees dark and high;
I used to think their slender tops
Were close against the sky:
It was a childish ignorance,
But now 'tis little joy
To know I'm farther off from Heaven
Than when I was a boy.

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn
Stand shadowless like Silence, listening
To silence.

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