 | John McRae - Discourse analysis, Literary - 1998 - 172 pages
...objectivity, humour, acceptance? When might it have been written? How can you tell? Text: Poem (v) (v) With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red,...sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread 5 Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She... | |
 | Roger Rosenblatt - Nature - 2006 - 248 pages
...circumstances of factory workers and aroused the public's sympathy, as well as Hood's. He wrote: 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!" (Thomas Hood, "The... | |
 | Dolores Bausum - Crafts & Hobbies - 2001 - 268 pages
...of women sewed by hand. Hood rallied the public to take notice of these invisible human beings. With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red,...of dolorous pitch She sang the "Song of the Shirt." Having drawn this portrait of an exhausted seamstress, Hood addresses the men who heedlessly wear the... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - English language - 2001 - 598 pages
...children, wrore as early as 1843 a searing piece against the condition of a poor woman at work: With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red,...Woman sat, in unwomanly rags. Plying her needle and thtead Stiich! stiich! stirch! In poverty, hunger, and ditt. And still with a voice of dolorous pirch... | |
 | Laurie M. Carlson - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2003 - 36 pages
...mansion so he could go back to his first dream — acting! . Excerpt from "The Song of the Shirt" 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!7' (A popular ditty... | |
 | Sarah Morgan Dawson, Francis Warrington Dawson - History - 2004 - 352 pages
...of the "steelfinger." Sarah took the t1tle from Thomas Hood's "The Song of the Shirt" (1843): With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red,...dolorous pitch, She sang the "Song of the Shirt." Stitch! Stitch! Stitch! April 10, 1873 It is said that the bill to extend the patents for Sewing Machines... | |
 | Laura Hapke - Political Science - 2004 - 228 pages
..."The Song of the Shirt," the title of a widely circulated 1 843 poem by the Briton Thomas Hood.'' With fingers weary and worn With eyelids heavy and red...Stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with the voice of dolorous pitch She sang the "Song of the Shirt!" Its easily memorized lyrics poeticized... | |
 | Donna E. Keene, Prufrock Press, Kathy D. Kenne - Children's poetry - 2009 - 70 pages
...toils for Mammon's sake, Without a brain to ponder and craze Or a heart to feel — and break! 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!" 10 Alfred Tennyson... | |
 | Edwin Wildman - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 432 pages
...had not been patented, made a trivial addition or two and patented it himself. • **»•*** With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red,...her needle and thread — Stitch! stitch! stitch! In po-rerty, hanger and dirt, And still, with a voice of dolorous pitch — Would that its tone could... | |
 | Xiuguo Zhang - English language - 2005 - 288 pages
...slave Along with the barbarous Turk, iere v/oman has never a soul to save, If this is Christian work I Work @ work @ work Till the brain begins to swim, Work @ work @ work Till the eyes are heavy and dim I Seam, and gusset, and band, Band , and gusset, and seam, Till over the buttons I fall asleep, And... | |
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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... 
