 | George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 390 halaman
...on in my dream. 4 " O men with sisters dear ! O 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 ! 6. " But why do I talk of death, That phantom of grisly bone ? I hardly fear his terrible shape,... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1863 - 438 halaman
...wives I It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives ! Stitch ! stitch ! stitch I In poverty, hunger and dirt, Sewing, at once, with...double thread, A shroud as well as a shirt. But why do 1 talk of Death, That phantom of grisly bone? I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my... | |
 | Jessie Boucherett - 1863 - 182 halaman
...ordinary paupers. In the lower ranks, too, sad failures occur. The oft-told tale of the shirt-maker, — " Sewing at once, with a double thread, A shroud as well as a shirt," has lost its force by repetition, yet is not less true or less terrible now, than when Hood wrote his... | |
 | John Timbs - 1864 - 390 halaman
...antithetical passages are there in Hood's serious poems. In the " Song of the Shirt ' the singer sat — Sewing at once with a double thread A shroud as well as a shirt. And she exclaims — Oh, God, that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap. In the Dream... | |
 | John Miller D. Meiklejohn - 1864 - 72 halaman
...47. — (See Grammar, page 30.) Rule 9. — Point ont the Datives in the following sentences : — 1. But why do I talk of Death ! that phantom of grisly bone, I hardly fear his terrible shape, it seems so like my own. 2. The water, like a witch's oils, burnt... | |
 | 1865 - 592 halaman
...happens under such circumstances, against every one but tho real offenders ; and Hood's doleful lines — "Sewing at once with a double thread, A shroud as well as a shirt," became as familiar to the readers of the daily prints as Macaulay's New Zealander. Punch, too, lent... | |
 | Frances Martin - 1866 - 506 halaman
...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 —...do I talk of Death ? That Phantom of grisly bone, I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own, Because of the... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1866 - 568 halaman
...dear! 0 men, with mothers and wives I It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives! t Stitch — stitch — stitch, — In poverty, hunger,...do I talk of Death ? That phantom of grisly bone, I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own — This shattered roof— and this naked... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 halaman
...! " O Men, with sisters dear ! O Men, with mothers and wives ! It is not linen you're wearing out, Stitch — stitch — stitch, In poverty, hunger,...do I talk of Death — That phantom of grisly bone ? I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own Because of... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1866 - 412 halaman
...languages : — O, men, with sisters dear ! O, men, with husbands 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 ! Hut why do I talk of death — that phantom of grisly bone ? I hardly fear his terrible shape, it... | |
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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! 
