 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
 | Laura Hapke - History - 2004 - 228 pages
...sang "The Song of the Shirt," the title of a widely circulated 1 843 poem by the Briton Thomas Hood.'' 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 the voice of dolorous pitch She sang the "Song... | |
 | Donna E. Keene, Prufrock Press, Kathy D. Kenne - Children's poetry - 2009 - 70 pages
...That toils for Mammon's sake, Without a brain to ponder and craze Or a heart to feel — and break! 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 its tone... | |
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