 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...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,...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 ! " TBE BRIDGE... | |
 | George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1843 - 530 pages
...and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly 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 could reach the rich '.— She sang this " Song of the Shirt!" GENTILITY—... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1844 - 622 pages
...fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sate in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty,...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... | |
 | Johann Georg Kohl - 1844 - 316 pages
...fdjaft }ur Sn'idjiipna bee unglücílidjen Ccnboner Scaíicvinuciu) 2>aê 8ieb ber «Römerin. 205 And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She sang the „Song of the Shirt 1" *) Work' work! work! While the cock is crowing aloof! And work ! work ! work I Till the stars shine... | |
 | 1844 - 878 pages
...red, A woman sat in unwomanly racs, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch — rtiteh— otiteh ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, Would that its tone eould reach the llich Sue song this ' Song of the Shirt I" GRATIFYING FACTS RESPECTING... | |
 | Johann Georg Kohl - Great Britain - 1844 - 316 pages
...unb 3»irn ! A Woman sate in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread. Stitch! stitch! stitch! ID poverty, hunger, 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!" *) *) SOTit Ringern... | |
 | Thomas Hood - English literature - 1845 - 434 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...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,...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 - 442 pages
...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,...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 !" Glimpses of the... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 308 pages
...fingers weary and woni, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread — "Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty,...work ! work ! While the cock is crowing aloof ! And work— work— work, Till the stars shine through the roof! It's 0 ! to be a slave Along with the... | |
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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... 
