 | James Thomas Fields - American literature - 1881 - 412 pages
...! " 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 ; O God ! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap !... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1920 - 802 pages
...Shirt. ' jjut wj1y_do I talk of Death ? That PhaTflorh oFgrisly 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 ' Work — work — work I My labour... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1921 - 506 pages
...shirt. "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; 0 God ! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap ! '... | |
 | Charles Larcom Graves - Great Britain - 1857 - 342 pages
...shirt. "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 ! "... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - Anthologies - 1923 - 252 pages
...Shirt! " 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: O God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap!" "The... | |
 | Friedrich W. D. Brie - English literature - 1923 - 328 pages
...Shirt. 36 'But why do I talk of Death? That Phantom of grisly bone. I halxlly 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... | |
 | George Roy Elliott, Norman Foerster - English poetry - 1923 - 864 pages
...shirt. "But why do I talk of Death? That phantom of grisly bone, I hardly fear its terrible shape, 35 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! 40... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - Literature - 1923 - 284 pages
...judgment " But why do I talk of DeathThai 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: О God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap!" "The... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson - American literature - 1922 - 1920 pages
...33 ' " 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!... | |
 | Harry Morgan Ayres, Frederick Morgan Padelford - English literature - 1924 - 942 pages
...Shirt. "But why do I talk of Death? That Phantom of grisly bone, I hardly fear its terrible shape, d magnanimous bearing, and an energy and keenness which Because of the fasts I keep ; Oh, God ! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap... | |
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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! 
