 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 768 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 tone could reach the rich ! — She sung this " Song of the Shirt !" THE LADY'S... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 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 !" HOOD. IV. THE LAY OF... | |
 | 1843 - 424 pages
...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... | |
 | Baptists - 1852 - 1080 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!" NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS,... | |
 | Edwin Hubbell Chapin - Cities and towns - 1853 - 204 pages
...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 red,...She sang the song of the shirt. Work ! work ! work ! While the cock is crowing aloof. And work — work — work ! Till the stars shine through the roof... | |
 | American literature - 1853 - 442 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 tones could reach the rich ! — She sang this " Song of the Shirt !" THOMAS HOOD.... | |
 | Anna U. Russell - Elocution - 1853 - 580 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 tone could reach the rich ! — EXERCISE CLXXVI. FREDERIKA BREMER. Anon. WHAT is... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1853 - 800 pages
...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... | |
 | Commerce - 1853 - 788 pages
...THE SHIRT SEWERS Ш NEW YORK. "With fingen weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman eat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread. Stitch—...! In poverty, hunger, and dirt ; And still with a volco of doterons pitch She sang the ' SOUK of the Shirt !' " aoofi " Sang of the Skirt" We agree with... | |
 | Elizabeth Nicholson - Literature - 1853 - 412 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, A woman sat, in unwomanly raga, Plying her needle and thread ! Stitch ! — stitch ! — stitch ! In poverty, hunger and dirt,... | |
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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... 
