 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
 | American poetry - 1993 - 412 pages
...道地地的鐵木機器， 為財神鞠躬又盡痺。 沒有頭惱去冥思遙想， Or a heart to feel @ and break!] 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,... | |
 | Charles Hamm - Music - 1995 - 410 pages
...Henry Russell's "The Gambler's Wife," and their own setting of Thomas Hood's "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 of... | |
 | Rob Pope - Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) - 1995 - 236 pages
...responsihle act and thought As also in hirth and death. A socialist response to the Duchess's mantle? 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... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - English language - 1997 - 613 pages
...for children, wrote 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 red, A Woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She... | |
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