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... Poems of sorrow, death and immortality - Page 31851912Full view - About this book
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed she had Another morn than GUI'S. THE 80NQ Of THE SHIRT. WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids..."Work! work! work! While the cock is crowing aloof 1 And work work work, Till the stars shine through the roof! It's oh! to be a slave Along with... | |
| George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1843 - 530 pages
...ease my heart, But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and tbread ! With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...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... | |
| Johann Georg Kohl - 1844 - 316 pages
...9íáf)ermnen unb @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,...her needle and thread Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! la poverty, hunger, and dirt, *)'<Se Cat fid) forbid), wie une bie Rettungen bcrtdjtetcn, }u ttyrcn... | |
| 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... | |
| 1844 - 878 pages
...red, A woman Bat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread Stitch stitch stitch I In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice...the ' Song of the Shirt !' ' Work work work 1 While the cock is crowing aloof ! And work work work ! Till the stars shine through the roof... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 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 - 434 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 sung this " Song of the shirt !" NEW AND VALUABLE... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1845 - 442 pages
...Remorse was so extreme ; 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,...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,... | |
| 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...work work, Till the stars shine through the roof! It's 0 ! to be a slave Along with the barbarous Turk, Where woman has never a soul to save, If this... | |
| Henry Clapp - 1846 - 238 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 sung this " Song of the Shirt ! " RADICALISM.... | |
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