 | England - 1860 - 532 pages
...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? That phantom of grisly...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... | |
 | E. K. Washington - 1860 - 708 pages
...get wages ridiculously small; scarce a dime a day, reminding one of Hood's " Song of the Shirt." " 0 God ! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap 1" It is said they have generally five hundred thousand dollars' worth of flax in course of manipulation.... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1861 - 562 pages
...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, That phantom of grisly...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... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1861 - 520 pages
...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? That phantom of grisly...my own — It seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep; O, God ! that bread should be so dear. And flesh and blood so cheap ! " Work — work... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1861 - 394 pages
...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 ? That Phantom of grisly...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... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1861 - 482 pages
...thread^ A- shroud. as well as a shirt. " But why do I talk of death ? That phantom of grisly boner I hardly fear his terrible shape,. It seems so like...my own — It seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep ;. O, God ! that bread should be so dear?. And flesh and blood so cheap !. " Work —... | |
 | John Williamson Palmer - 1861 - 540 pages
...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, That phantom of grisly bone ? 171 I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own ; It seems so like my own Because of... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - 1862 - 382 pages
...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, That phantom of grisly...my own — It seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep, Oh God 1 that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap ! " Work — work... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1862 - 522 pages
...terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep ; 0, God ! 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... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - 1863 - 178 pages
...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 ? That phantom of grisly...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... | |
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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, Because of the fasts I keep ; Oh, God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap... 
