 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. " But why do I talk of Death ?...  The New Mirror - Page 332edited by - 1843Full view - About this book
 | American literature - 1853 - 416 pages
...terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep, Alas ! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood...flags : And what are its wages ? a bed of straw, A crust of bread — and rags ! That shattered roof — and this naked floor — A table — a broken... | |
 | Elizabeth Nicholson - Literature - 1853 - 396 pages
...terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep, Alas ! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood...flags : And what are its wages ? a bed of straw, A crust of bread — and rags ! That shattered roof — and this naked floor — A table — a broken... | |
 | 1853
...still reverberates throughout the land. It tells the same dismal story, in the same sad accents : — Work — work — work : My labour never flags ; And what are its wages 7 A lied of straw, A crust of bread — and rags. That shatter'd roof— and this nuked floor — A... | |
 | Thomas Hood - English poetry - 1854 - 388 pages
...terrible shape, It seems 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...flags ; And what are its wages ? A bed of straw, A crust of bread — and rags. That shatter'd roof — and this naked floor — A table — a broken... | |
 | Stephen SHIRLEY - 1855
...like my own. It seems so like my own, Because of the fast I keep ; Oh ! God that bread should be eo dear, And flesh and blood so cheap. Work, work, work,...flags ; And what are its wages ? A bed of straw, A crust of bread and rags. 1 hat shattered roof and naked floor, And a wall so blank my shadow I tbank... | |
 | Margaret Maria Gordon - Christian life - 1854 - 125 pages
...hand and at nominal prices by the gay shop and the fashionable tailor. " Work — work — work ! Thy labour never flags ; And what are its wages ? a bed of straw, A crust of bread and rags. That shatter'd roof — and this naked floor — A table — a broken chair—... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1856
...Because of the fasts I keep ; Oh, God ! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap ! i( Work — work — work ! My labour never flags ; And what are its wages ? A bed of straw, A crust of bread — and rags. That shatter'd roof — and this naked floor — A table — a broken... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1857 - 388 pages
...terrible shape, It seems 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...flags ; And what are its wages ? A bed of straw, A crust of bread — and rags. That shatter'd roof — and this naked floor — A table — a broken... | |
 | American literature - 1857 - 416 pages
...terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep, Alas ! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood...work ! My labour never flags : And what are its wages ta bed of straw, A crust of bread — and rags ! That shattered roof — and this naked floor — A... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1857 - 448 pages
...Oh God ! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap 1 6. "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 roof, and this naked floor, A table, a broken chair, And a... | |
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