 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.  Christian Pamphlets - Page 621852Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Hood - English literature - 1845 - 434 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...hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own, Because of the fast I keep : Oh God ! that bread should be so dear,... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1845 - 442 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...hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own, Because of the fast I keep : Oh God ! that bread should be so dear,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry Clapp - American literature - 1846 - 228 pages
...asleep, And sew them on in my dream! " Oh! men with sisters dear! Oh ! men with mothers and wives ! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures'...hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own— It seems so like my own, Because of the fast I keep: Oh God! that bread should be so dear, And... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1846 - 672 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...hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own, Because of the fast I keep : Oh God ! that bread should be so dear,... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 308 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...hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own Because of the fasts I keep ; Oh God 1 that bread should be so dear,... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1846 - 562 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...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Henry Clapp - American literature - 1846 - 238 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 SHBOUD as well as a shirt ! " But why do I talk of death, That phantom of grisly bone ; I hardly fear... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 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 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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