| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 halaman
...dear! O men, with mothers and wives! It is not linen you "re wearing out! But human creatures' lives I Stitch — stitch — stitch, In poverty, hunger,...my own — It seems so like my own Because of the fasts I keep ; O God ! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap 1 ' ' Work — work... | |
| 1857 - 780 halaman
...food? " But why do / tnlk of dirt, Where nothing else is known ? I hardly know the foul thing's form. It seems so — like my own. It seems so like my own — While three in a bed we sleep, Till filth doth grow to the poor man dew, While water and soap am... | |
| 740 halaman
...fourth verse — " O ! men, with sisters dear, O ! men, with mothers and wives, It is uot linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives ! Stitch,...with a double thread, A shroud as well as a shirt." " Stop," says a Spitalfields weaver, " God plants truth in the hearts of men, and this is of it." "... | |
| George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1843 - 530 halaman
...with mothers and wivee ! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives ! sin i'Ii — stitch — stitch. In poverty, hunger, and dirt, Sewing at once, with a double tbread, A sbroud as well as a shirt. " But wby do I talk of Death — That phantom of grisly bone,... | |
| Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1844 - 622 halaman
...in a dream. " O ! Men, with sisters dear ! O ! Men ! with mothers and wives ! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives? Stitch —...my own— It seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep, Oh ! God ! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap ! " Work — work... | |
| 1844 - 878 halaman
...in a dream ! 0 ! men, with sisters dear ! O ! men, with mothers and wives I It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives ! Stitch—...But why do I talk of Death ? That phantom of grisly hone, 1 hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own. It Booms so like my own, Because of... | |
| 1847 - 800 halaman
...her hard condition. The case may apply as well to laborers of the other sex, if not even better. " But why do I talk of death. That phantom of grisly...my own — It seems so like my own, Because of the fasts 1 keep, U God ! that bread should be to dear, And flesh and blood so cheap ! " Work, work, work... | |
| Johann Georg Kohl - 1844 - 316 halaman
...hunger an dirt, Sewing at once, with a doable thread, Л Shroud as well as a Shirt *). But why do [ talk of Death? That Phantom of grisly bone, I hardly...my own — It seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep, Oh, God ! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap! ") Work ! work... | |
| 1846 - 608 halaman
...human creatures' lived! Stitch — stich — stitch. In poverty, hunger, and dirt, Sewing nt onre, with a double thread, A Shroud as well as a Shirt. " ' But why do I talk of Death > That phantom of grizly bone, I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems fo like my own — It seems so like my own,... | |
| 1844 - 858 halaman
...in a dream 1 0 ! men, with sisters near ! О ! men, with mothers and wir« ! It is not linen you're : . Sowing at once, with a double thread, A shroud as welt os a shirt. But why do I talk of Death ? That... | |
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