 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...  The Works of Thomas Hood - Page 147by Thomas Hood - 1864Full view - About this book
 | American literature - 1846 - 302 pages
...THOMAS HOOD. With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread — " Stitch ! stitch!...work — work, Till the stars shine through the roof! It's O ! to be a slave Along with the barbarous Turk, Where woman has never a soul to save, If this... | |
 | Henry Clapp - American literature - 1846 - 238 pages
...thread ! " With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread ; Stitch— stitch—...and dirt ; And still with a voice of dolorous pitch — Would that its tone could reach the rich ! — She sung this " Song of the Shirt ! " RADICALISM.... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1846 - 672 pages
...thread !" With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread ; Stitch— stitch —...and dirt ; And still with a voice of dolorous pitch — Would that its tone could reach the rich !— She sung this " Song of the shirt !" ... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1846 - 562 pages
...Poems. [June. " With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch! stitch! stitch!...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... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 308 pages
...and thread." With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A Woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch ! stitch !...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." A STARVATION... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...thread !" With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread ; Stitch— stitch —...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. TRERE... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1846 - 620 pages
...uucompassionated — that the dread of hunger and of nakedness ever forced its victims to endure. " ' Work ! work ! work ! While the cock is crowing aloof! And work — work — work. Till the finie shine through the roof! It's О ! to be a slave Along with tin: barbarous Turk, Where womn'n... | |
 | Henry Clapp - American literature - 1846 - 228 pages
...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 rich !— RADICALISM. Simply speaking, radicalism is that which... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1849 - 430 pages
...thread !" With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread ; Stitch — stitch —...and dirt; And still with a voice of dolorous pitch — Would that its tone could reach the rich !— ,1 ... ... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...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 ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, COATES. " Work — work — work ! While the cock is crowing aloof! And work — work — work ! Till... | |
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