 | Thomas Hood - 1854 - 536 páginas
...bread — and rags. That shattered roof — and this naked floor — A table — a broken chair — And a wall so blank, my shadow I thank . For sometimes falling there ! 1 ' Work — work — work ! From weary chime to chime. Work — work — work, As prisoners work... | |
 | Edward Toliver - 1855 - 348 páginas
...eaves The brooding swallows cling, As if to show their sunny backs, And twit her with the Spring. Oh, but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet, With the sky above her head, And the grass beneath her feet; For only one short hour, To feel as she used to feel, Before... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1855 - 590 páginas
...that bread should be so dear, And fleeh and blood so cheap !" What handwriting on the wall is this — "A wall so blank, my shadow I thank, For sometimes falling there." In the -' Dream of Eugene Aram," he makes the murderer say of his victim — "A dozen times I groaned.... | |
 | 1855 - 1226 páginas
...bread should ho so dear, And flesh and blood go ch'cap !" What handwriting on the wall is this — " A wall so blank, my shadow I thank For sometimes falling there." In the "Dream of Eugene Aram," he makes the murderer say of his victim — "Adosen times I groan'd.... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1855 - 586 páginas
...bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap !" What handwriting on the wall is this — " A wall so blank, my shadow I thank For sometimes falling there." In the "Dream of Eugene Aram," he makes the murderer say of his victim — " A dozen times I groan'd.... | |
 | 1856 - 962 páginas
...and rags — " That shattered roof, and this naked floor — • . A table, a broken chair — . v And a wall so blank — my shadow I thank • For sometimes falling there!" , Intelligent industry ought to thrive, and in every department of useful labor a livelihood ought... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1856 - 1048 páginas
...bread — and rags. That shatter'd roof — and this naked floor — A table — a broken chair — And a wall So blank, my shadow I thank For sometimes falling there ! " Work — work — work ! From weary chime to chime, Work — work — work — As prisoners work... | |
 | 1856 - 402 páginas
...crust of bread — and rags, That shattered roof — this naked floor, A table — a broken chair — And a wall so blank, my shadow I thank For sometimes falling there ! With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and rod, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1857 - 420 páginas
...bread — and rags. That shatter'd roof — and this naked floor — A table — a broken chair — And a wall so blank, my shadow I thank For sometimes falling there ! " Work— work— work ! From weary chime to chime, Work — work — work — As prisoners work... | |
 | Lucius Osgood - 1858 - 494 páginas
...crust of bread', and rags* ; That shatter'd roof, and this naked floor*; A table', a broken chair', And a wall so blank', my shadow I thank For sometimes falling there* ? 7 " Work ! work ! work ! From weary chime to chime ! Band, and gusset, and seam, Seam, and gusset,... | |
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Work, work, work ! My labor never flags ; And what are its wages ? A bed of straw, A crust of bread, and rags ; That shattered roof, and this naked floor, A table, a broken chair, And a wall so blank, my shadow I thank For sometimes falling there. 
