 | 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... | |
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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... 
