 | 740 pages
...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 pages
...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. But why do I talk of Death ? That phantom of grisly hone, 1 hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1844 - 622 pages
...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. " But why do I talk of Death ! That Phantom of grisly bone, I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1845 - 434 pages
...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 ! " But why do I talk of death, That phantom of grisly bone ; I hardly fear his terrible shape, It... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1845 - 442 pages
...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 ! " But why do I talk of death, That phantom of grisly bone ; I hardly fear his terrible shape, It... | |
 | Mary Milner - 1849 - 808 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." completed, or her merciless employer will refuse her the scanty, hardlyearned pittance, which, when... | |
 | 1846 - 308 pages
...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. « But why do I talk of Death ? That Phantom of grisly bone; I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1846 - 672 pages
...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 ! " But why do I talk of death, That phantom of grisly bone ; I hardly fear his terrible shape, It... | |
 | Henry Clapp - 1846 - 228 pages
...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! " But why do I talk of death, That phantom of grisly bone ; I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1846 - 562 pages
...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. " But why do I talk of Death ? That Phantom of grisly bone, * Of London we cannot speak from personal... | |
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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! 
