...living circumstances of factory workers and aroused the public's sympathy, as well as Hood's. He wrote: 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...

...millions of women sewed by hand. Hood rallied the public to take notice of these invisible human beings. 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 She sang the "Song of...

...for children, wrore as early as 1843 a searing piece against the condition of a poor woman at work: With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...Woman sat, in unwomanly rags. Plying her needle and thtead Stiich! stiich! stirch! In poverty, hunger, and ditt. And still with a voice of dolorous pirch...

...his mansion so he could go back to his first dream — acting! . Excerpt from "The Song of the Shirt" 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...

...slaves" of the "steelfinger." Sarah took the t1tle from Thomas Hood's "The Song of the Shirt" (1843): 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, She sang the "Song of...

...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...

...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...

...Thomas Hood's 'The Song of the Shirt' conjured up an enduring picture of the poor, oppressed seamstress: With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rag Plying her needle and thread Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger and dirt And still with...

...reputation nationally and trebled the circulation of Punch where it was published (1843). It began: With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...rags, Plying her needle and thread Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty hunger and dirt. 273:31 "I think [273:16] ... his head." DHL greatly revised this...

...consciences. The poem was reprinted in the Times and translated into many languages. The Song of the Shirt 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 "Work! work! work! While...