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• O men with sisters dear, O men with mothers and wives, It is not linen you 're wearing out, But human creatures' lives!
  -- Thomas Hood (1798-1845) -- The Song of the Shi...
• Sewing at once a double thread, A shroud as well as a shirt.
  -- Thomas Hood (1798-1845) -- The Song of the Shi...
• My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread.
  -- Thomas Hood (1798-1845) -- The Song of the Shi...
• No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief.
  -- Thomas Hood (1798-1845) -- The Song of the Shi...
• With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags Plying her needle and thread,-- Stitch!
  itch! stitch! -- Thomas Hood (1798-1845) -- The Song of the Shi...
• For my part, getting up seems not so easy By half as lying.
  -- Thomas Hood (1798-1845) -- Morning Meditatio...
• Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care; Fashioned so slenderly, Young, and so fair!
  -- Thomas Hood (1798-1845) -- The Bridge of Sigh...
• Even God's providence Seeming estrang'd. -- Thomas Hood (1798-1845) -- The Bridge of Sigh
• Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap
  it will be dear to you. -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)...