 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...  Macleod's First text-book of elocution - Page 145by Alfred Macleod - 1881Full view - About this book
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed — she had Another morn than GUI'S. THE 80NQ Of THE SHIRT. WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and..."Work! work! work! While the cock is crowing aloof 1 And work — work — work, Till the stars shine through the roof! It's oh! to be a slave Along with... | |
 | George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1843 - 530 pages
...ease my heart, But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and tbread ! With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...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... | |
 | Johann Georg Kohl - 1844 - 316 pages
...@ti(ferinnen bee @r{gebirgea unb an= berer Orte ju Siebe e¿ beffer úberfe^en möge, The Song of the Shirt. With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...her needle and thread — Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! la poverty, hunger, and dirt, *)'<Se Cat fid) forbid), wie une bie Rettungen bcrtdjtetcn, }u ttyrcn... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1844 - 622 pages
...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! " THE CHRISTIAN LADY'S... | |
 | 1844 - 878 pages
...red, A woman Bat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch— stitch— stitch I In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice...the ' Song of the Shirt !' ' Work — work — work 1 While the cock is crowing aloof ! And work — work — work ! Till the stars shine through the roof... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...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 sang this - Song of the Shirt !" SILENCE. is... | |
 | Thomas Hood - English literature - 1845 - 434 pages
...And yet, oh yet, that many a Dame Would dream the Lady's Dream ! PART 11. 15 THE SONG OF THE SHIET. 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,... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1845 - 442 pages
...And yet, oh yet, that many a Dame Would dream the Lady's Dream ! PART 11. 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,... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 302 pages
...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, — She sang this " Song of the Shirt." A STARVATION... | |
 | Henry Clapp - American literature - 1846 - 238 pages
...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 ! " RADICALISM.... | |
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