 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 - Seite 31851912Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 Seiten
...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 !" THE LADY'S... | |
 | 1843 - 424 Seiten
...THOMAS HOOD. WITH fingers weary and worn, 'With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rage, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch! stitch! stitch!...sang the " Song of the Shirt !" " Work ! work ! work 1 While (he cock is crowing aloof! And work — work — work, Till the stars shine through the roof... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 Seiten
...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 !" HOOD. IV. THE LAY OF... | |
 | 1852 - 1080 Seiten
...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!" NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS,... | |
 | Edwin Hubbell Chapin - 1853 - 204 Seiten
...to the very motion of the needle-woman's toil, and is the most articulate expression of her woe. " With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...work — work ! Till the stars shine through the roof ! It's oh ! to be a slave Along with the barbarous Turk, Where woman has never a soul to save, If TIIIS... | |
 | 1853 - 560 Seiten
...of human kind. CHASLES LAi THOMAS HOOD. 187 0f % WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy aud red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle...work — work, Till the stars shine through the roof, It 's Oh ! to he a slave Along with the barbarous Turk, Wiiere woman has never a soul to save, If this... | |
 | Anna U. Russell - 1853 - 580 Seiten
...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...and dirt ; And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, — Would that its tone could reach the rich ! — EXERCISE CLXXVI. FREDERIKA BREMER. Anon. WHAT is... | |
 | 1853 - 442 Seiten
...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...and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch — Would that its tones could reach the rich ! — She sang this " Song of the Shirt !" THOMAS HOOD.... | |
 | 1853 - 102 Seiten
...their brinv bed My tears must stop, lor every drop Hinders needle unJ thread." " With fingers wcnry and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat...In poverty hunger and dirt, And still with a voice ol dolorous pitch. Would that its tuns could reach the iicft* She sang this "Sony of the Shirt!" THE... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 Seiten
...eyelids heavy and red, .-V woman sat. in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch! stitchl stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still, with...pitch, She sang the "Song of the Shirt!" "Work! work! wort! While the cock is crowing aloof! And work — work — work ! Till the stars shine through the... | |
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