 | Thomas Hood - 1861 - 482 pages
...Her evil behavior, And leaving, with meekness* Her sins to her Saviour ! THE SONG OF THE -SHEET. WITH fingers weary and worn, With .eyelids heavy and red,...rags, Plying her needle and thread —— Stitch! stiteh! stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She sang the... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1861 - 520 pages
...weakness, Her evil behavior, And leaving, with meekness, Her sins to her Saviour ! THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her ncedle and thread — Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice... | |
 | Richard Newton - Bible - 1861 - 326 pages
...was called " The Song of the Shirt." It described a poor woman at her work, iu this way : — " With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rag Plying her needle and thread — • Stitch— stitch— stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt,... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 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 red,...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 1" A PARENTAL ODE TO MY... | |
 | Thomas Hood - English poetry - 1862 - 522 pages
...Hinders needle and thread ! " With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat hi unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread - Stitch...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 I " e* THE LADY'S... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - 1862 - 382 pages
...is difficult to say in which he excelled; he held the master key to each avenue to the heart.} WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red,...Plying her needle and thread, — Stitch ! stitch I stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still, with a voice of dolorous pitch, She sang the "... | |
 | Stow School - 1862 - 320 pages
...upon Stow, of idleness it stands fully acquitted. Like Thomas Hood's shirtmaker, with us it was — " Work — work — work, Till the brain begins to swim,...— work — work, Till the eyes are heavy and dim." All sorts of subjects — History, Mathematics, Grammar, Drilling, &c., &c., &c. ; and all sorts of... | |
 | Stephen C. Massett - California - 1863 - 382 pages
...recitation of the " Song of a Shirt." It was something like this : With fingers weary and worn — (echo) With eyelids heavy and red A woman sat in unwomanly...with a voice of dolorous pitch She sang the Song of a Shirt . . worn. red. dead. ditch. hurt. stitch. dirt ! And so on. As I am going occasionally to initiate... | |
 | 1863 - 150 pages
...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 red,...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." & $salm of fife.... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers - 1863 - 390 pages
...which was a leading trait in Ilood's nature, and forms an attractive element in his writings.] 1. WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red,...poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still, with a voice of dolorousi piteh, She sang the "Song of the Shirt!" 2. " Work — work — work ! While the cock is... | |
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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 reach the... 
