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... The advanced reader - Страница 53написао/ла Scottish school-book assoc - 1863Пуни преглед - О овој књизи
| Eliza Cook - 1850 - 432 страница
...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 Mackay - 1851 - 332 страница
...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 Hich ! She sang this " Song of the Shirt ! " DEAR IS MY LITTLE... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 страница
...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... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 страница
...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... | |
| 1843 - 424 страница
...mournful echo In the hearts of nme who read it, even among us. THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. BY 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! In poverty, hunger and dirt, And still... | |
| 1852 - 1080 страница
...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 страница
...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 ! work ! While the cock is crowing aloof. And work — work — work ! Till the stars shine through the roof ! It's oh ! to be a slave Along... | |
| Anna U. Russell - 1853 - 580 страница
...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 страница
...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.... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 страница
...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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