 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.  Lays and Lyrics of the Nineteenth Century - Pagina 881863Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Thomas Hood - 1845 - 434 pagina’s
...with mothers and wives ! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives ! Stitch — stitch — stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt....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 - 1845 - 442 pagina’s
...with mothers and wives ! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives ! Stitch — stitch — stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt....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... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pagina’s
...with mothers and wives ! It i . 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 SRROUD as well as a shirt ! " But why do I talk of death, That phantom of grisly bone; I hardly fear... | |
 | 1846 - 308 pagina’s
...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...It seems so like my own Because of the fasts I keep ; Oh God 1 that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap ! " Work — work — work !... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1846 - 672 pagina’s
...with mothers and wives ! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives ! Stitch— stitch — stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt....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 - 228 pagina’s
...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...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!... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1846 - 562 pagina’s
...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...do I talk of Death ? That Phantom of grisly bone, * Of London we cannot speak from personal knowledge; but we can testify that, in the Liberty of Dublin... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1846 - 620 pagina’s
...But why do I talk of Death ? That phantom of grizly bone, I hardly fear his terrible shape, It neems so like my own — It 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!" But we liad best pause at once,... | |
 | Henry Clapp - 1846 - 238 pagina’s
...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 SHBOUD as well as a shirt ! " But why do I talk of death, That phantom of grisly bone ; I hardly fear... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pagina’s
...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 SRRoDii as well as a shirt ! " But why do I talk of death, That phantom of grisly bone ; I hardly fear... | |
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