 | Thomas Hood - 1846 - 672 pages
...dream ! " Oh ! men with sisters dear ! Oh ! men with mothers and wives ! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives ! Stitch— stitch...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... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1846 - 562 pages
...dream ! " 0 ! men, with sisters dear ! 0 ! men with mothers and wives ! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives ! Stitch — stitch...with a double thread, A Shroud as well as a Shirt. " But why do I talk of Death ? That Phantom of grisly bone, * Of London we cannot speak from personal... | |
 | 1846 - 302 pages
...dream ! " O ! Men, with sisters dear ! OSMen, with mothers and wives! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives! Stitch— stitch—...and dirt, Sewing at once, with a double thread, A SnRofD as well as a Shirt. " But why do I talk of Dealh ' That Phantom of grisly bone; I hardly fear... | |
 | Henry Clapp - 1846 - 238 pages
...dream ! " Oh ! men with sisters dear ! Oh ! men with mothers and wives ! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives ! Stitch— stitch—...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 pages
...dream ! " Oh ! men with sisters dear ! Oh ! men with mothers and wives ! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives ! Stitch— stitch...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... | |
 | University magazine - 1846 - 780 pages
...• О ! Men, with Sisters dear ! U ! Men, with Mothers and Wires ! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives ! Stitch— stitch...hunger, and dirt, Sewing at once, with a double thread, Л Shroud as well as a Shirt. " ' But why do I talk of Death ? That Phantom of grisly bone, I hardly... | |
 | Henry Clapp - 1846 - 228 pages
...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! " But why do I talk of death, That phantom of grisly bone ; I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems... | |
 | Mary Milner - 1849 - 808 pages
...its monotonous, wearying task. Hood has graphically described her in his " Song of the Shirt," as " Sewing at once with a double thread, A shroud as well as a shirt." completed, or her merciless employer will refuse her the scanty, hardlyearned pittance, which, when... | |
 | 1848 - 592 pages
...grief— " ' О men with sisters dear, О men with mothers and wives, 'Tis not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives. Stitch, stitch, stitch...with a double thread A shroud as well as a shirt. " ' 0 but for one short hour, A respite, however brief, No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only... | |
 | 1847 - 1160 pages
...and dirt.... Et combien de mots ne faudrait-il pas pour rendre les deux vers qui suivent ceux-ci : Sewing at once, with a double thread A Shroud as well as a Shirt! Pourtant, ça et là, éclatent des pensées tout-à-fait shakespeariennes : « Que parle-je de la... | |
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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. 
