 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.  English Literature of the Nineteenth Century ... - Page 468by Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 746 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1850 - 98 pages
...dear! Oh 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...with a double thread, A shroud as well as a shirt ! 34 25 THERE'S A GOOD TIME COMING, BOYS. Poetry by Charles Muckuy, LL.U.— Music by Henry Ku-s. li.... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1851 - 350 pages
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 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...Oh, men ! with mothers and wives ! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives ! Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and...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 blood so cheap ! " Work ! work... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1851 - 332 pages
...! Men ! with Mothers and Wives ! It is not linen you 're wearing out, But human creatures' lives ! Stitch — stitch — stitch, In poverty, hunger,...Shroud as well as a Shirt. "But why do I talk of Death 1 That Phantom of grisly bone, I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems... | |
 | 1843 - 424 pages
...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,...Shroud as well as a Shirt. " But why do I talk of Death 7 That phantom of grisly bone, I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my ownIt seems so... | |
 | 1852 - 1080 pages
...wives 1 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 ownIt seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep, Oh ! God ! that bread should be so dear. And... | |
 | 1852 - 318 pages
...0 ! Men, with Mothers and Wives ! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creature's lives ! Stitch — stitch — stitch, In poverty, hunger,...do I talk of Death ? That phantom of grisly bone, 1 hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own, Because of the... | |
 | Godfrey Charles Mundy - 1852 - 430 pages
...Think of that, ye Tipperary turf-cutters ! Think of that, ye poor starving London needle-women, who " Stitch, stitch, stitch! In poverty, hunger and dirt,...with a double thread A shroud as well as a shirt!" Now for a melange—or macedoine of advertisements— to all concerned. They are word for word as entered.... | |
 | 1853 - 442 pages
...Wives ! It is not linen you' re wearing out, But human creature's lives ! 158 r THE SONG OF THE SHIHT. Stitch — stitch — stitch, In poverty, hunger and...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 so cheap ! " Work — work —... | |
 | Elizabeth Nicholson - 1853 - 412 pages
...Men with Mothers and Wives ! It is not linen you' re wearing out, But human creature's lives ! 158 Stitch — stitch — stitch, In poverty, hunger and...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 so cheap ! « Work — work... | |
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