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... The Oxford examiner, ed. by M.W.I. Shilleto - Page 7edited by - 1882Full view - About this book
| George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1843 - 530 pages
...for poor suffering humanity than a thousand homilies, or all the arguments of the preem. With fingen weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rugs, Plying her needle and tbread — Stitсh ! stitrh ! stilch '. In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And... | |
| Johann Georg Kohl - 1844 - 316 pages
...@ti(ferinnen bee @r{gebirgea unb an= berer Orte ju Siebe e¿ beffer úberfe^en möge, The Song of the Shirt. With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...her needle and thread — Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! la poverty, hunger, and dirt, *)'<Se Cat fid) forbid), wie une bie Rettungen bcrtdjtetcn, }u ttyrcn... | |
| 1844 - 878 pages
...ease my heart ; But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread !' With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly racs, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch — rtiteh— otiteh ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt,... | |
| Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1844 - 622 pages
...ease my heart, Bat in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread ! " With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sate in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger,... | |
| Johann Georg Kohl - Great Britain - 1844 - 316 pages
...unb 3»irn ! A Woman sate in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread. Stitch! stitch! stitch! ID 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!" *) *) SOTit Ringern... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...my heart — But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread !" With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...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 !" SILENCE. is... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1845 - 442 pages
...And yet, oh yet, that many a Dame Would dream the Lady's Dream ! PART 11. 15 THE SONG OF THE SHIRT, WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and threadStitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt And still with a voice of dolorous pitch,... | |
| Thomas Hood - English literature - 1845 - 434 pages
...And yet, oh yet, that many a Dame Would dream the Lady's Dream ! PART 11. 15 THE SONG OF THE SHIET. WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and threadStitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt And still with a voice of dolorous pitch,... | |
| American literature - 1846 - 308 pages
...foreign clime ENGLISH DESTITUTION. THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. BY THOMAS HOOD. With fingers weary and woni, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly...of dolorous pitch She sang the ' Song of the Shirt !' " Work ! work ! work ! While the cock is crowing aloof ! And work— work— work, Till the stars... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1846 - 562 pages
...briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread ! 398 Hood's Poems. [June. " With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...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 !" Of the longer poems... | |
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