 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.  The Wheat-sheaf - Page 1451857 - 416 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1853 - 386 pages
...chop-house hard by; and he now introduces this Spirit of Punch to his friend with considerable effect — " Stitch, stitch, stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt...with a double thread A shroud as well as a shirt." ' lIis enough for Sbragg. That phantom of a shirt again ha ! ha ! Death in the rear ; Superstition... | |
 | 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...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 ! work ! My labour... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 pages
...! Oh! men with mothers and wivesl It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives I Stitch — stitch — stitch ! In poverty, hunger,...my own — It seems so like my own, Because of the fast I keep : Oh God ! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap ! " Work — work... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 768 pages
...In poverty, hunger, and dirt, Sewing at onee, with a double thread, A SHBOUD as well as a shirt 1 " But why do I talk of death, That phantom of grisly...my own — It seems so like my own, Because of the fast I keep : Oh God ! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap I " 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... | |
 | Christian souvenir - 1851 - 286 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." The rays of invigorating sunshine never cheer the gloom of that attic casement ; the poor sempstress... | |
 | 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.... | |
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