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 New Mirror - Page 332edited by - 1843Full view - About this book
| Johann Georg Kohl - 1844 - 316 pages
...@ti(ferinnen bee @r{gebirgea unb an= berer Orte ju Siebe e¿ beffer úberfe^en möge, The Song of the Shirt. With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...rags, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! la poverty, hunger, and dirt, *)'<Se Cat fid) forbid), wie une bie Rettungen bcrtdjtetcn,... | |
| 1844 - 878 pages
...ease 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, A woman sat in unwomanly racs, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch — rtiteh— otiteh ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt,... | |
| Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1844 - 622 pages
...ease my heart, Bat 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 sate in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger,... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 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...rags, Plying her needle and thread , Stitch — stitch — stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt ; And still with a voice of dolorous pitch — Would that... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1845 - 442 pages
...And yet, oh yet, that many a Dame Would dream the Lady's Dream ! PART 11. 15 THE SONG OF THE SHIRT, WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and threadStitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt And still with a voice of dolorous pitch,... | |
| Thomas Hood - English literature - 1845 - 434 pages
...And yet, oh yet, that many a Dame Would dream the Lady's Dream ! PART 11. 15 THE SONG OF THE SHIET. WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and threadStitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt And still with a voice of dolorous pitch,... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 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...rags, Plying her needle and thread ; Stitch— stitch — stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt ; And still with a voice of dolorous pitch — Would that... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1846 - 562 pages
...it no more of exaggeration than what must be found in all such pictures.* THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. " WITH fingers weary and worn, With eye-lids heavy and...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... | |
| Henry Clapp - American literature - 1846 - 238 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...Plying her needle and thread ; Stitch— stitch— stitch ! In poverty, hunger and dirt ; And still with a voice of dolorous pitch — Would that its... | |
| American literature - 1846 - 302 pages
...'Twill be like hearing in a foreign clime ENGLISH DESTITUTION. THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. BY THOMAS HOOD. With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...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... | |
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