 | American literature - 1853 - 442 pages
...terrible shape, It seems so like 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 — work ! My labour never flags : And what are its wages ? a bed of straw, A crust... | |
 | Ireland - 1853 - 1074 pages
...not more cold or silent than that world which misery taught them to know, and to cry — " Oh God, that bread should be so dear And flesh and blood so cheap." If we analyse the statistics of the City Missions, we find that some women are thrown upon the streets... | |
 | Frances Elizabeth Swift - American poetry - 1853 - 136 pages
...roll; Thine, if remains a fragment yet To hold thy noble souL 10 CRY OF THE FAMISHING IRISH. "O God ! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap '"' We're starving ! we perish ! our little ones die; The wail of the mother ascendeth on high; Moveless... | |
 | Thomas Hood - English poetry - 1854 - 424 pages
...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 ! " Work — work — work ! My labour never flags ; And what are its wages ? A bed of straw, A crust... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1854 - 536 pages
...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 — work — work ! My labor never flags ; And what are its wages 1 A bed of straw, A crust... | |
 | 1854 - 502 pages
...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 flesh and blood so cheap." Similar in spirit to these two poems, and still more artistic and powerful, though not so well known,... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1855 - 586 pages
...sat " Sewing at once, with a double thread, Л shroud as well as a shirt." And she cries, " 0, God ! that 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... | |
 | 1856 - 754 pages
...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 ! Who could confront such burning language as this, and not feel the enormity of the sin denounced... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1856 - 1048 pages
...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 ! i( Work — work — work ! My labour never flags ; And what are its wages ? A bed of straw, A crust... | |
 | 1857 - 514 pages
...not more cold or silent than that world which misery taught them to know, and to cry — " Oh God, that bread should be so dear And flesh and blood so cheap." If we analyse the statistics of the City Missions, we find that some women are thrown upon the streets... | |
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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... 
