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... wife a pattern of frugality ; his sons pictures of health ; his daughters models of virtue ; whilst he himself has been represented as going at early morn , gay and blithe as the lark to his daily employ , leaving be- hind a happy home ...
... wife a pattern of frugality ; his sons pictures of health ; his daughters models of virtue ; whilst he himself has been represented as going at early morn , gay and blithe as the lark to his daily employ , leaving be- hind a happy home ...
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... Wife and children all are there to receive with pleasant looks , Table ready set and chair , supper hanging on the hooks ; Joyful are the thoughts of home , now I'm ready for my chair , So till to - morrow morning's come , bill and ...
... Wife and children all are there to receive with pleasant looks , Table ready set and chair , supper hanging on the hooks ; Joyful are the thoughts of home , now I'm ready for my chair , So till to - morrow morning's come , bill and ...
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... wife 56 , two daughters of 20 and 15 respectively ; live in a poor low dila- pidated hovel ; and have lodging with them a married daughter , her husband , and three boys of 11 , 9 , and 5 years , and an infant , all sleeping in one room ...
... wife 56 , two daughters of 20 and 15 respectively ; live in a poor low dila- pidated hovel ; and have lodging with them a married daughter , her husband , and three boys of 11 , 9 , and 5 years , and an infant , all sleeping in one room ...
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... wife and two small children , wages 2s . 6d . , rent 1s . , has ls . 6d . from the parish . This poor family is more than half starved . I visited them late in the afternoon of Saturday , and they had not tasted food that day . One ...
... wife and two small children , wages 2s . 6d . , rent 1s . , has ls . 6d . from the parish . This poor family is more than half starved . I visited them late in the afternoon of Saturday , and they had not tasted food that day . One ...
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... wife and family to live upon ! Let me ask the townsman how far that sum would go with him ? Why the middling tradesman would spend more in rent alone ; it would be more than consumed by a decent mechanic in rent and clothes , and if an ...
... wife and family to live upon ! Let me ask the townsman how far that sum would go with him ? Why the middling tradesman would spend more in rent alone ; it would be more than consumed by a decent mechanic in rent and clothes , and if an ...
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Page 46 - 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.
Page 47 - WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread, — • Stitch— stitch— stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt; And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She sang the "Song of the Shirt!
Page 47 - Oh! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet — With the sky above my head, And the grass beneath my feet; For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal.
Page 46 - Work, work, work! From weary chime to chime ; Work, work, work, As prisoners work for crime : Band and gusset and seam, Seam and gusset and band, Till the heart is sick, and the brain benumbed, As well as the weary hand.
Page 45 - With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch — stitch — stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, — Would that its tone could reach the Rich ! She sang this " Song of the Shirt !
Page 10 - Ye gentle souls, who dream of rural ease, Whom the smooth stream and smoother sonnet please; Go! if the peaceful cot your praises share, Go look within, and ask if peace be there; If peace be his — that drooping weary sire, Or theirs, that offspring round their feeble fire; Or hers, that matron pale, whose trembling hand Turns on the wretched hearth th
Page 10 - I grant indeed that fields and flocks have charms For him that grazes or for him that farms; But when amid such pleasing scenes I trace The poor laborious natives of the place, And see the mid-day sun with fervid ray On their bare heads and dewy temples play, While some, with feebler heads and fainter hearts Deplore their fortune yet sustain their parts, Then shall I dare these real ills to hide In tinsel trappings of poetic pride?
Page 3 - Whom call we gay? That honour has been long The boast of mere pretenders to the name. The innocent are gay — the lark is gay, That dries his feathers, saturate with dew, Beneath the rosy cloud, while yet the beams Of dayspring overshoot his humble nest.
Page 46 - Work ! work ! work ! My labour 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.
Page 46 - Seam, and gusset, and band, Band, and gusset, and seam, Till over the buttons I fall asleep, And sew them on in a dream! "Oh, Men, with Sisters dear! Oh, Men, with Mothers and Wives! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures