 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 She sang the "Song of the...  The New Mirror - Page 332edited by - 1843Full view - About this book
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates Rogé - American poetry - 1832 - 882 pages
...Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger, 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 ! " TBE BRIDGE OF SIGHS. ONE more unfortunate, Weary of breath, Rashly importunate, Gone to her death... | |
 | Johann Georg Kohl - Great Britain - 1844
...Stitch! stitch! stitch! ID poverty, hunger, 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!" *) *) SOTit Ringern míibc unb matt, mit Xugenlibern fdjroer unb rott), fufi ein SGSeib in unmeiblidjen... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1844
...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 She sang the " Song of the Shirt I" " Work 1 work ! work ! While the cock is crowing aloof! And... | |
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...red, A woman sat in unwomanly racs, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch — rtiteh— otiteh ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, Would that its tone eould reach the llich Sue song this ' Song of the Shirt I" GRATIFYING FACTS... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1845
...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 rich !She sung this " Song of the shirt !" NEW AND VALUABLE... | |
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...heavy and red, A woman eat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still, with a voice of dolorous pitch, She sang the " Song of the Shirt !" " Work ! work ! work ! While the cock is crowing aloof!... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1845
...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 rich !She sung this " Song of the shirt !" Glimpses of... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 504 pages
...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 rich !— She sang this " Song of the Shirt !" SILENCE.... | |
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...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 rich ! She sang this " Song of the Shirt !" Of the longer... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 288 pages
...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 She sang the . Song of the Shirt !' " Work ! work ! work ! While the cock is crowing aloof !... | |
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