 | Thomas Hood - 1849 - 430 pages
...asleep, And sew them on in my dream ! " Oh ! men with sisters dear ! 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... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...dream ! 0 ! men, with sisters dear ! O ! 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 seems... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1849 - 424 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... | |
 | 1850 - 98 pages
...a 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 ! 34 25 THERE'S A GOOD TIME COMING, BOYS. Poetry by Charles Muckuy, LL.U.— Music by Henry Ku-s. li.... | |
 | 1853 - 384 pages
...verse — " 0 ! men, with sisters dear, O ! 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." " Stop," says a Spitalfields weaver, " God plants truth in the hearts of men, and this is of it." "... | |
 | 1843 - 424 pages
...dream ! " 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...with a double thread, A Shroud as well as a Shirt. " But why do I talk of Death 7 That phantom of grisly bone, I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...101 " 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 seems... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 pages
...! Oh! men with mothers and wivesl It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives I Stitch — stitch — stitch ! In poverty, hunger,...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... | |
 | Christian souvenir - 1851 - 286 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." The rays of invigorating sunshine never cheer the gloom of that attic casement ; the poor sempstress... | |
 | 1852 - 318 pages
...Sisters dear ! 0 ! Men, with Mothers and Wives ! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creature's lives ! Stitch — stitch — stitch, In poverty,...with a double thread, A shroud as well as a shirt ! But why do I talk of Death ? That phantom of grisly bone, 1 hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems... | |
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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. 
