 | 1858 - 424 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...! 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... | |
 | Advanced reading book - 1860 - 458 páginas
...Oh, men ! with mothers and wives ! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives ! Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and...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 labour never... | |
 | Warren P. Edgarton - 1860 - 530 páginas
...Oh ! men, with mothers and wives ! It is not linen you 're wearing out, But human creatures' lives ! Stitch — stitch — stitch, In poverty, hunger,...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 never... | |
 | England - 1860 - 532 páginas
...O ! men, with mothers and wives ! It is not linen you 're wearing out, But human creature's lives ! Stitch — stitch — stitch, In poverty, hunger,...hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my ownIt seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep, Oh ! God! that bread should be so dear, And... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1860 - 450 páginas
...Stitch— stitch— stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, Sewing at once, with a double thread, A SHEOUD as well as a shirt ! "But why do I talk of death,...my own — It seems so like my own, Because of the fast I keep ; Oh God ! that bread should bo so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap ! " Work — work... | |
 | John Blackmore (lieut.) - 1860 - 344 páginas
...! Oh, men, with mothers and wives! It is not linen you 're wearing out, But human creatures lives ! Stitch — stitch — stitch , In poverty, hunger,...with a double thread, A shroud as well as a shirt." Oh then pity her, and help her, lest her poverty drive her to the streets, and she ends her days in... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1861 - 394 páginas
...Oh, Men, with Mothers and Wives ! It is not linen you 're wearing out, But human creatures' lives ! Stitch — stitch — stitch, In poverty, hunger,...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 labour... | |
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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. 
