Friday 1 November 2024

NOVEMBER


 
No sun – no moon!
No morn 
no noon –
No dawn 
no dusk  no proper time of day 
No sky – no earthly view –
No distance looking blue 

No road 
no street no 't'other side the way' 
No end to any Row 

No indications where the Crescents go

No top to any steeple
No recognitions of familiar people 
No courtesies for showing 'em 

No knowing 'em

No travelling at all  no locomotion,
No inkling of the way 
no notion 
'No go' 
by land or ocean 
No mail
no post 
No news from any foreign coast

No Park  no Ring  no afternoon gentility 
No company 
no nobility 
No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,
No comfortable feel in any member

No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,
No fruits, no flo
wers, no leaves, no birds,
November! 

Thomas Hood (1799-1845)

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