 | Thomas Hood - English poetry - 1854 - 424 pages
...blessed leisure for Love or Hope, But only time for Grief ! A little weeping would ease my heart, But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop...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,... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1854 - 536 pages
...blessed leisure for love or hope. But only time for grief ! A little weeping would case my heart, But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop...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,... | |
 | Stephen SHIRLEY - 1855 - 210 pages
...for grief. A little weeping would ease my heart, But in their briny bed, My tears must stop for ev'ry drop Hinders needle and thread. 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,... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1856 - 1048 pages
...! " Oh ! but for one short hour ! A respite however brief! No blessed leisure for Love or Hope, But only time for Grief! A little weeping would ease my...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,... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief ! A little weeping would ease my heart, But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop...fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red; A woman sate in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread ! Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty,... | |
 | David Charles Bell - 1856 - 466 pages
...blessed leisure for Love or Hope, but only time for Grief ! A little weeping would case my heart ; but in their briny bed .My tears must stop, for every...fingers weary and worn, with eye-lids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, plying her needle and thread. Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! in poverty,... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1857 - 420 pages
...blessed leisure for Love or Hope, But only time for Grief ! A little weeping would ease iny heart, But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop...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,... | |
 | Advanced reading book - Readers - 1860 - 458 pages
...blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief ! A little weeping would ease my heart, But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop...fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sate in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread ! Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty,... | |
 | Warren P. Edgarton - Recitations - 1860 - 530 pages
...blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief! A little weeping would ease my heart, But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop...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,... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - Readers - 1860 - 450 pages
...blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief ! A little weeping would ease my heart — But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop...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,... | |
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Oh! but for one short hour! A respite however brief! No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief! A little weeping would ease my heart, But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread!" With fingers... 
