 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
 | Denys Thompson - Literary Criticism - 1978 - 252 pages
...undistinguished poet, wrote The Song of the Shirt (1843), of which the first stanza runs: With fingers wean, and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A Woman sat,...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... | |
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