Gold! Poem by Thomas Hood

Gold!

Rating: 2.5


Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold!
Bright and yellow, hard and cold
Molten, graven, hammered and rolled,
Heavy to get and light to hold,
Hoarded, bartered, bought and sold,
Stolen, borrowed, squandered, doled,
Spurned by young, but hung by old
To the verge of a church yard mold;
Price of many a crime untold.
Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold!
Good or bad a thousand fold!
How widely it agencies vary,
To save - to ruin - to curse - to bless -
As even its minted coins express :
Now stamped with the image of Queen Bess,
And now of a bloody Mary.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Kameron Otten 01 March 2010

this poem really really really really really sucks!

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Jake Wilson 23 August 2016

im sorry you feel such a way toward an undeniably clever formation of word

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C.a. Morrow 11 March 2010

C.A. Morrow...Thomas Hood was a most underrated poet, this poem is so emotionally contempary.....anyone that doesn't appreciate it's subtlety obviously has language difficulties

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Shivam 21 June 2018

it should be hugged by the old

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Britte Ninad 31 May 2018

To save - to ruin - to curse - to bless - As even its minted coins express: Now stamped with the image of Queen Bess, And now of a Mary.

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Shang 18 March 2018

I want the summary of this poem

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shah waiz 06 April 2019

do you need

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shah waiz 06 April 2019

i have the summary of gold

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Ashish 07 February 2018

After molten graven hammer and Cole after that line there is hard to get and and heavy to hold

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reena shah 20 January 2018

nice but not so nice

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