 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!  Prose and verse - Side 209af Thomas Hood - 1849Fuld visning - Om denne bog
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...and wives, It is uot 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." " Stop," says a Spitalfields weaver, " God plants truth in the hearts of men, and this is of it." "... | |
 | 1844 - 878 sider
...wives I It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives ! Stitch— stitch— stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, Sewing at once, with...But why do I talk of Death ? That phantom of grisly hone, 1 hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own. It Booms so like my own, Because of... | |
 | 1846 - 608 sider
...human creatures' lived! Stitch — stich — stitch. In poverty, hunger, and dirt, Sewing nt onre, with a double thread, A Shroud as well as a Shirt. " ' But why do I talk of Death > That phantom of grizly bone, I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems fo like my own — It seems so like my own,... | |
 | 1844 - 858 sider
...stitch— stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, Sowing at once, with a double thread, A shroud as welt os a shirt. But why do I talk of Death ? That phantom of grisly hone, 1 hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems но like my own. It seems so like my own. Because... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 sider
...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... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1846 - 562 sider
...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 sider
...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... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 sider
...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... | |
 | Henry Clapp - 1846 - 238 sider
...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... | |
 | 1846 - 302 sider
...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 SnRofD as well as a Shirt. " But why do I talk of Dealh ' That Phantom of grisly bone; I hardly fear... | |
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