 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.  Speeches, Correspondence, Etc., of the Late Daniel S. Dickinson of New York ... - Seite 155von Daniel Stevens Dickinson - 1867Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Advanced reading book - 1860 - 458 Seiten
...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...shirt. " But why do I talk of Death ? That phantom of grisly bone, I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own,... | |
 | Warren P. Edgarton - 1860 - 530 Seiten
...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...shirt. " But why do I talk of death, That phantom of grisly bone, I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own,... | |
 | John Blackmore (lieut.) - 1860 - 344 Seiten
...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." Oh then pity her, and help her, lest her poverty drive her to the streets, and she ends her days in... | |
 | Paul Émile Daurand Forgues - 1860 - 408 Seiten
...hunger, anddirl... Et combien de mots ne faudrait-il pas pour rendre les deux vers qui suivent ceux-ci : Sewing at once, with a double thread A Shroud as well as a Shirt! Pourtant, çà et là, éclatent des pensées tout à fait shakspeariennes : squelette sinistre,—... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1860 - 450 Seiten
...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 SHEOUD as well as a shirt ! "But why do I talk of death, That phantom of grisly bone ; I hardly fear... | |
 | Ellen Barlee - 1860 - 262 Seiten
...liberty unless they starve to secure it. Shall it continue so ? CHAPTER V. " Stitch, stitch, stitch, In poverty, hunger, and dirt, Sewing at once with a double thread, A dhroud as well as a shirt." HOOD. To illustrate the truth of the last chapter, and the necessity existing... | |
 | England - 1860 - 532 Seiten
...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 so like my ownIt seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep, Oh ! God! that bread should be so dear, And... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1861 - 520 Seiten
...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...shirt. " But why do I talk of death? That phantom of grisly bone, I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own,... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1861 - 562 Seiten
...wives ! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives l Stitch — stitch — stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, Sewing at once, with...shirt ! " But why do I talk of death, That phantom of grisly bone ? I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own,... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1861 - 394 Seiten
...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...Shirt. *< But why do I talk of Death ? That Phantom of grisly bone, I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own— • It seems so like my own,... | |
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