 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
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Poetry - 1873 - 552 pages
...SIGNIFICANT FORGET-ME-NOT." — THOMAS HOOD. 1 192 THOMAS HOOD. " A POET'S WIDE POSSESSION OF THE EARTH — " Work — work — work ! My labour never flags ; And what are its wages ? A bed of straw, i A crust of bread — and rags. Q u p That shattered roof — and this naked floor — A table —... | |
 | English song - 1873 - 566 pages
...HOOD. And flesh and blood so cheap ! 192 THOMAS HOOD. "A POET'S WIDE POSSESSION OF THE EARTH — " Work — work — work ! My labour never flags ; And what are its wages ? A bed of straw, 1 A crust of bread— and rags. • That shattered roof — and this naked floor— 3 > A table —... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1873 - 348 pages
...Till over the buttons I fall asleep And sew them on in a dream I , Work — work — work ! My labor never flags ; And what are its wages? A bed of straw, A crust of bread — and rags ; This shattered roof, and this naked floor — A table — a broken chair... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap ! 6. "Work — work — work! My labor never flags ; And what are its wages ? A bed of straw, A crust of bread — and rags; That shattered roof — ar.d this naked floor — «> A table — a broken... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1874 - 286 pages
...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 ;...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 chair, and... | |
 | Edward Henry Bickersteth (bp. of Exeter) - 1874 - 764 pages
...transmission to the printer, hence the omission.] (To be continued.} ütecblebmman. BY ELLEN BAЕLЕЕ. " Work, work, work— My labour never flags, And what are its wages ? — a bed of straw, A crust of bread, and rags." A ND what do you propose doing for a live•ft lihood ? " asked a sympathising... | |
 | Charles Henri Schneider - 1875 - 328 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...labour never flags : And what are its wages ? A bed of strawA crust of bread — and rags ; That shattered roof — and this naked floor— A table — a... | |
 | Thomas Wadleigh Harvey - Readers - 1875 - 348 pages
...God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap! 6. " Work—work—work ! My labor never 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 chair—... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1876 - 599 pages
...that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap ! ' ' Work — work — work ! My labor never 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... | |
 | Alfred Macleod - 1877 - 238 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 -this naked floor — a table — a broken chair —... | |
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