 | Paul King Jewett - 1996 - 508 halaman
...wives! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives. Stitch-stitch-stitch In poverty and dirt, — Sewing at once, with a double thread, A shroud as well as a shirt! (Thomas Hood, "The Song of the Shirt") II. On Being Human: A Christian Perspective A. INTRODUCTION... | |
 | Anastatia Sims - 1997 - 310 halaman
...employment opportunities. Seamstresses, she concluded, earned only misery as they plied their trade ln poverty, hunger and dirt Sewing at once with a double thread A shroud as well as a shirt.4 To avoid this fate, most white girls made marriage their goal. When a woman married, she not... | |
 | Mary Hamilton-Dann - 1998 - 330 halaman
...English Midlands. In far-off America, Thomas Hood memorialized the sweat-shops of his native land: "... Sewing at once, with a double thread, a shroud as well as a shirt!" These were but a few of the vanguard, some of them giants, others merely tall men rising above the... | |
 | Louise L. Stevenson - 2001 - 274 halaman
...sons to realize that, "It is not linen you're wearing out, / But human creatures' lives," for she is "sewing at once, with a double thread, / A shroud as well as a shirt."36 Editors meant this poem to establish the family as the foundation of social security rather... | |
 | Laura Hapke - 2004 - 228 halaman
...Seamstress: A Tale of the Times (1843). Perhaps the Hood poem's appeal lay in the catchy lament for her "sewing at once, with a double thread, / A Shroud as well as a shirt." She reaffirmed her purity with every stitch she took. Thus, though such women were icons of sewing... | |
 | Donna E. Keene, Prufrock Press, Kathy D. Kenne - 2009 - 70 halaman
...on in a dream! "Oh, men, with sisters dear! Oh, men, with mothers and wives! It is not linen you're wearing out But human creatures' lives! Stitch—...why do I talk of Death? That phantom of grisly bone, I hardly fear its terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own, Because of the... | |
 | Gerry Holloway - 2005 - 328 halaman
...mothers and wives! It is not linen you are wearing out, But human creatures' lives! Stitch-stitch-stitch, In poverty, hunger, and dirt, Sewing at once, with a double thread, A shroud as well as a shirt. Seam, and gusset, and band. Band and gusset, and seam, Work, work, work, Like engines that works by... | |
 | 廖七一 - 2006 - 362 halaman
...mothers and wives! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creature's lives! Stitch@stitch@stitch, In poverty, hunger, and dirt, Sewing at once, with...thread, A shroud as well as a shirt. 'But why do I talk That phantom I hardly fear his ter It seems so liki It seems so like my Because of the O God! That... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 halaman
...it, harness it down; and make it bear thee on, — to New Americas, or whither God wills! THOMAS HOOD Stitch — stitch — stitch, In poverty, hunger,...with a double thread, A Shroud as well as a Shirt. Thomas Hood (1799-1845) was born in London, the son of a bookseller. As a young man, he apprenticed... | |
 | Jacqueline Field, Marjorie Senechal, Madelyn Shaw - 2007 - 372 halaman
...of the Shirt!" Oh, Men, with Sisters dear! Oh, men, with Mothers and Wives! It is not linen you 're wearing out, But human creatures' lives! Stitch —...with a double thread, A Shroud as well as a Shirt. The upright, puritanical Samuel Hill and the lowdown showman Isaac Singer, each in his own way a man... | |
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O men, with sisters dear! O men, with mothers and wives! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives! Stitch — stitch — stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt — Sewing at once, with a double thread, A shroud as well as a shirt! 
