 | Thomas Hood - 1846 - 229 halaman
...double thread, A SHROUD as well as a shirt ! " But why 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 fast I keep : Oh God ! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap ! " Work — work... | |
 | Henry Clapp - 1846 - 208 halaman
...hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own, Because of the fast I keep : Oh God ! that bread should be so dear, And...and blood so cheap ! " Work — work — work! My labor never flags ; And what are its wages ? A bed of straw, A crust of bread — and rags : A shattered... | |
 | 1846 - 288 halaman
...Shirt. " But why do I talk of Dealh ' That Phantom of grisly bone; I hardly fear his terrible shajir, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own Because of the fasts 1 keep; Oh God ! that bread should be so drar, And flesh and blood so cheap! "Work — work — work... | |
 | 1847
...made the mountains hills of weeping. But never before our time, we believe, did any bard exclaim : " O God ! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap." We can travel at the rate of a mile in a minute ; but never perhaps, at any period of history, did... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849
...double thread, A shroud as well as a shirt. But why do I talk of Death ? That phantom of grisly bone, I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like...flesh and blood so cheap ! Work — work — work ! My labor never flags; And what are its wages ? A bed of straw, A crust of bread — and rags. That shatter'd... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1849 - 401 halaman
...double thread, A SHROUD as well as a shirt ! " But why 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 fast I keep : Oh God ! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap ! " Work — work... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1849
...hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own— It seems so like my own, Because of the fast I keep : Oh God ! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap ! " Work—work—work ! My labor never flags ; And what are its wages ? A bed of straw A crust of... | |
 | Alfred George Goodwyn - 1849 - 35 halaman
...Stitch, stitch, stitch," as Hood humourously describes it, and causes one of them to exclaim,— " Oh, God ! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap." One cargo of needlewomen at least I would consign, say three thousand, under that due care and observance... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1851 - 312 halaman
...double thread, A Shroud as well as a Shirt. "But why do I talk of Death 1 That Phantom of grisly bone, I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like...work ! My labour never flags ; And what are its wages 1 A bed of straw, A crust of bread — and rags. That shatter'd roof — and this naked floor — A... | |
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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 ! But why do I talk of Death ? That phantom of grisly bone ? I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems... 
