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" 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 147
by Thomas Hood - 1864
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Osgood's Progressive Fifth Reader: Embracing a System of Instruction in the ...

Lucius Osgood - Elocution - 1858 - 494 pages
...1845. 1. 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 dirtf ; And still, with a voice of dolorous pitch, She sung the " Song of the Shirt." 2. "WorkM workM...
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Our Plague Spot: In Connection with Our Polity and Usages : as Regards Our ...

Plague Spot - Great Britain - 1859 - 632 pages
...thread. • " Witli fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread. Stitch.' stitch! stitch!...dirt — And still with a voice of dolorous pitch — Would that its tone could reach the rich — She sang thin ' Song of the Shirt !'" The bitter experience...
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The Ladies' Reader: Designed for the Use of Ladies' Schools and Family ...

John William Stanhope Hows - Readers - 1860 - 450 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...stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt ; And still in a voice of dolorous pitch — Would that its tone could reach the rich ! — She sung this "Song...
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Advanced Reading Book: Literary and Scientific

Advanced reading book - Readers - 1860 - 458 pages
...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...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!" LONGFELLOW is the most...
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Poets of England and America; being selections from the best authors of both ...

England - English poetry - 1860 - 532 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." THOMAS HOOD. f iw toritttn...
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The New York Speaker: A Selection of Pieces Designed for Academic Exercises ...

Warren P. Edgarton - Recitations - 1860 - 530 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! 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." Ex. CL.—TKE...
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College rhymes, contributed by members of the universities of ..., Volumes 12-13

1871 - 386 pages
...side of her bed. Her sapphires were gleaming and rich, And faultless her lace and her skirt, And yet with a voice of dolorous pitch She sang the " Song of the Flirt." "Flirt, Flirt, Flirt! When the lunch is scarcely begun ! Flirt, Flirt, Flirt ! Till the sickening...
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The King's highway; or, illustrations of the Commandments [sermons].

Richard Newton - Bible - 1861 - 290 pages
...this way, — " With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags Plying her needle and thread — Stitch— stitch—...the ' Song of the Shirt.' " Work— work— work! Till the brain begins to swim ; Work — work — work ! Till the eyes are heavy and dim. Seam, and...
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A First Class Reader: Consisting of Extracts, in Prose and Verse, with ...

George Stillman Hillard - Readers (Secondary) - 1861 - 562 pages
...thread I " 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!" CLX. — MOSS-SIDE....
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Folk Songs

John Williamson Palmer - Folk songs - 1861 - 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 ! 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 ! " THOMAS Hooi). ELEGY....
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