 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 Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song - Seite 282von Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 882 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1846 - 302 Seiten
...'Twill be like hearing in a foreign clime ENGLISH DESTITUTION. THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. BY THOMAS HOOD. With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She sang the . Song of the Shirt !' " Work ! work ! work ! While the cock is crowing aloof ! And work—... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1849 - 430 Seiten
...blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief! A little weeping would ease my heartBut in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop...pitch — Would that its tone could reach the rich !— ,1 ... ... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 Seiten
...hour! A respite however brief! No blessed leisure for Love or Hope, But only time for Grief ! A little weeping would ease my heart; But in their briny bed...and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, Oh ! that its tone could reach the Rich ! She sang this " Song of the Shirt! " THE BUCKET. HOOD. How... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1849 - 424 Seiten
...hour! A respite, however brief! No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief! A little weeping would ease my heart— But in their briny...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... | |
 | 1850 - 98 Seiten
...! 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...dirt ; And still, with a voice of dolorous pitch, She sang I he song of the shirt: — Work, work, work, While the cock is crowing aloof; And work, work,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 768 Seiten
...! A respite, however brief ! No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief! A little weeping would ease my heart — But in their briny...Would that its tone could reach the rich ! — She sung this " Song of the Shirt !" THE LADY'S DREAM. The lady lay in her bed, Her couch so warm and soft,... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1851 - 332 Seiten
...! A respite however brief ! No blessed leisure for Love or Hope, But only time for Grief ! A little weeping would ease my heart, But in their briny bed...dolorous pitch — Would that its tone could reach the Hich ! She sang this " Song of the Shirt ! " DEAR IS MY LITTLE NATIVE VALE. SAMOEL ROGERS. DEAR is... | |
 | 1843 - 424 Seiten
...hour ! A respite however brief! No blessed leisure for Love or Hopo, But only time for Grief! A little weeping would ease my heart, But in their briny bed...red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle aud thread — Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 Seiten
...large discourse, that looks before and after.' He ceases to be a man, and becomes a thing." — Parker. WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She sang the " Song of the Shirt !" " Work ! work ! work ! While the cock is crowing aloof ! And work... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 Seiten
...now 'tis little joy To know I'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy. THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...and dirt, And still, with a voice of dolorous pitch, She sang the " Song of the Shirt !" "Work! work! work! While the cock is crowing aloof! And work —... | |
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