WorkThomas Hood

“Ballad" [opening: "Sigh on, sad heart, for love's eclipse"]”

"Ballad" [opening: "Sigh on, sad heart, for love's eclipse"] (pub. in Hood's works, pre-1840)

Thomas Hood (1799–1845) · pub. in Hood's works, pre-1840

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Documented 1840–1845

Letters • Essays

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this work is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York1record

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Letter to William H. Channing(?)

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“Sigh on, sad heart, for love's eclipse?”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.

1845—

Thomas Hood.

“Thomas Hood.”

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“SIGH on, sad heart, for Love’s eclipse And Beauty’s fairest queen.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Thomas Hood." New-York Daily Tribune, 18 July 1845. · 18 July 1845