 | Thomas Hood - 1857 - 420 halaman
...Oh, Men, with Mothers and Wives '. It is not linen you 're wearing out, But human creatures' lives ! Stitch — stitch — stitch, In poverty, hunger,...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 — work !... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1857 - 456 halaman
...Oh, men, with mothers and wives 1 It is not linen you 're wearing out, But human creatures' lives. Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt,...with a double thread, A +shroud as well as a shirt. 5. "But why do I talk of Death, That f Phantom of grisly +bone, I hardly fear his terrible shape, It... | |
 | Historical account - 1857 - 106 halaman
...mothers and wives, It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives. Stitch ! stiteh ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, Sewing at once...with a double thread, A shroud as well as a shirt ! I give but part of the song, but it is sufficient to remind us how fit are these bazaars to teach... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1857 - 800 halaman
...ereatures' livcs ! Stiteh — stiteh— stiteh ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, Sewing at once, with a douhle thread, A SHROUD as well as a shirt ! " But why do I talk of death, That phantom of grisly hone ? I hardly fear his terrihle shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own, Because... | |
 | Godfrey Charles Mundy - 1857 - 298 halaman
...turf-cutters ! Think of that, ye poor starving London needle-women, who •Stitch, stitch, stitch I In poverty, hunger, and dirt, Sewing at once with a double thread A ebroud as well as a shirt I' Now for a mcicetiloine of advertisements — to all concerned. They are... | |
 | 1858 - 424 halaman
...write ! In poverty, hunger and need, Writing at once our epitaph, As well as the lines you read. Bnt why do I talk of death, That phantom of grisly bone?...so like my own — It seems so like my own, Because ofthefastl keep ; Alas I that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap ! Write — write... | |
 | 1858 - 674 halaman
...where, any where out of the world !" Sometimes it is starving toil, feebly crooning the Song of the Shirt : " but why do I talk of death ? that phantom...fear his terrible shape, it seems so like my own." Or perhaps it is an exhausted Stylites on his column, who, for thrice ten years, thrice multiplied... | |
 | Lucius Osgood - 1858 - 494 halaman
...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...with a double thread', A shroud as well as a shirt\ 5. " But why do I talk of Death,— That phantom of grisly bone ? I hardly fear his terrible shape,... | |
 | Plague Spot - 1859 - 632 halaman
...! men with mothers and wives : It is not linen you are wearing out — But human creatures' lives ! Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and...why do I talk of death, That phantom of grisly bone P I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own Because of... | |
 | Warren P. Edgarton - 1860 - 530 halaman
...Oh ! men, with mothers and wives ! It is not linen you 're wearing out, But human creatures' lives ! Stitch — stitch — stitch, In poverty, hunger,...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 — work ! My labor... | |
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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. 
