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... Poems - Page 45by Thomas Hood - 1857 - 388 pagesFull view - About this book
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread! " With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her...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 ! " TBE BRIDGE... | |
| George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1843 - 530 pages
...must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and tbread ! With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch ! stitch ! elich ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt. And still with a voice of dolorous pitchWould that its tone... | |
| Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1844 - 622 pages
...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 —...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! " THE CHRISTIAN LADY'S... | |
| American literature - 1846 - 608 pages
...uncompassionated — that the dread of hunger and of nakedness ever forced its victims to endure. " ' Work ! work ! work ! While the cock is crowing aloof!...work — work, Till the stars shine through the roof! It's O ! to be n slave Along with the barbarous Turk, Where woman has never a soul to save, If this... | |
| Johann Georg Kohl - Great Britain - 1844 - 316 pages
...eé beffer fiberfegen möge. The Song of the Shirt. With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A Woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! ID poverty, hunger, and dirt, *) Ш fiat fid) Mt-jUid), wit une bit Rettungen berichteten, ju ®un|ien... | |
| Johann Georg Kohl - 1844 - 316 pages
...fdjaft }ur Sn'idjiipna bee unglücílidjen Ccnboner Scaíicvinuciu) 2>aê 8ieb ber «Römerin. 205 And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She sang the „Song of the Shirt 1" *) Work' work! work! While the cock is crowing aloof! And work ! work ! work I Till the stars shine... | |
| 1844 - 878 pages
...red, A woman sat in unwomanly racs, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch — rtiteh— otiteh ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, Would that its tone eould reach the llich Sue song this ' Song of the Shirt I" GRATIFYING FACTS RESPECTING... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread !" With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her...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 - English literature - 1845 - 434 pages
...the Lady's Dream ! PART 11. 15 THE SONG OF THE SHIET. WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A 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 - 1845 - 442 pages
...the Lady's Dream ! PART 11. 15 THE SONG OF THE SHIRT, WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A 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,... | |
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