 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.  Christian Pamphlets - Halaman 621852Tampilan utuh - Tentang buku ini
 | John Charles Curtis - 1863 - 178 halaman
...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...hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own — ' It seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep, Oh, God ! that bread should be so dear,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1863 - 614 halaman
...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 ! 5. " But why do I talk of death, • That phantom of grisly bonef I hardly fear his terrible shape,... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 390 halaman
...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 ! 6. " But why do I talk of death, That phantom of grisly bone ? I hardly fear his terrible shape,... | |
 | 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 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...hardly fear his terrible shape, it seems so like my own. 2. The water, like a witch's oils, burnt blue, and green, and white. 3. The stump of the mast... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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
...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...hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep, Oh God ! that bread should be so dear,... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1866 - 568 halaman
...It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives! t Stitch — stitch — stitch, — In poverty, hunger, and dirt, Sewing at once with...hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own — This shattered roof— and this naked floor A table— a broken chair — And a wall so blank,... | |
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