 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...  Labor, with Preludes on Current Events - Página 156por Joseph Cook - 1880 - 295 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1846 - 562 páginas
...it no more of exaggeration than what must be found in all such pictures.* THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. " WITH fingers weary and worn, With eye-lids heavy and...her needle and thread — Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She sang the "Song of the... | |
 | Henry Clapp - 1846 - 228 páginas
...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...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—... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1846 - 672 páginas
...And yet, oh yet, that many a Dame Would dream the Lady's Dream ! I'ART ii. 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,... | |
 | 1846 - 308 páginas
...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...her needle and thread — "Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She sang the ' Song of the Shirt... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 páginas
...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...needle and thread — Stitch — stitch — stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, Oh ! that its tone could... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1849 - 424 páginas
...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...sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread ; Stitch—stitch—stitch! In poverty, hunger and dirt; And still with a voice of dolorous pitchWould... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1849 - 430 páginas
...so extreme ; And yet, oh yet, that many a Dame Would dream the Lady's Dream ! 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,... | |
 | 1850 - 98 páginas
...! we are saved !' THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. Poetry by the late Thomas Hood.— Music by Henry BuMell. WITH fingers weary and worn. With eyelids heavy and...Plying her needle and thread. Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt ; And still, with a voice of dolorous pitch, She sang I he song of the... | |
 | Eliza Cook - 1850 - 432 páginas
...sometimes falling there ! " and to similar dens where, as now, " With fingers weary and worn, \Vith eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread " All praise to him, too, for that companion piece, "The Bridge of Sighs," where he sees, in one of... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 páginas
...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...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... | |
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