 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...  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal - Page 471844Full view - About this book
 | Ephraim Hunt - American literature - 1872 - 658 pages
...: My labor never flags. And what are its wages ? — a bed of straw, A crust of bread, and rags ; A shattered roof; and this naked floor ; A table ; a...work, From weary chime to chime ; Work, work, work, Band and gusset and seam, Seam and gusset and bund, Till tho heart is sick, and the brain benumbed,... | |
 | Francis George Heath - Agricultural laborers - 1872 - 108 pages
...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...blank, my shadow I thank For sometimes falling there." Hood. THE story of George Mitchell, " the man from the plough," had thrown a really romantic interest... | |
 | Anna Randall Diehl - Elocution - 1872 - 460 pages
...so cheapI " Work — work — work I My labor never flags ; And what are its wages ? A bed of straw, That shattered roof — and this naked floor — A...blank, my shadow I thank For sometimes falling there I " Work — work — work From weary chime to chime ; Work — work — work As prisoners work for... | |
 | American literature - 1872 - 660 pages
...: My labor never flags. And what are its wages ? — a bed of straw, A crust of bread, and rags ; A shattered roof; and this naked floor ; A table ; a...blank, my shadow I thank For sometimes falling there I " Work, work, work, From weary chime to chime ; Work, work, work, Band and gusset and seam, Seam... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - Readers - 1872 - 438 pages
...work ! My labor never flags ; And what are its wages? A bed of straw A crust of bread — and rags : A shattered roof— and this naked floor — A table...broken chair— And a wall so blank my shadow I thank Tor sometimes falling there 1 " Work — work — work 1 From weary chime to chime; Work — work —... | |
 | Readers - 1872 - 514 pages
...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 — 7* SONG OF THE SHIRT. And a wall so blank, my shadow I thank For sometimes falling there ! " Work... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...— and rags; That shattered roof — ar.d this naked floor — «> A table — a broken cliair — And a wall so blank, my shadow I thank For sometimes falling there ! 7 . " Work — work — work From weary chime to chime ; Work — work — work As prisoners work... | |
 | William Morley Punshon - Sermons, English - 1873 - 400 pages
...friends, until, in extremest desolation, the picture of the poet is realized : " A shattered roof — a naked floor, A table — a broken chair, And a wall so blank, their shadow they thank For sometimes falling there." Then sickness comes — the fever follows hard... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Poetry - 1873 - 552 pages
...labour never flags ; And what are its wages ? A bed of straw, i A crust of bread — and rags. Q u p That shattered roof — and this naked floor — A table — a broken chair — O O I M And a wall so blank, my shadow I thank H ,1 O £ For sometimes falling there ! •J .j... | |
 | Charles Henri Schneider - 1875 - 328 pages
...work — work ! My labour never flags : And what are its wages ? A bed of strawA crust of bread — and rags ; That shattered roof — and this naked...work for crime ! Band, and gusset, and seam — Seam, arid gusset, and band, Till the heart is sick, and the brain benumbed, As well as the weary hand. "... | |
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