 | Thomas Hood - 1846 - 672 pages
...meal ! " Oh ! but for one short hour ! A respite, however brief! No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief! A little weeping would ease...with a voice of dolorous pitch — Would that its tone could reach the rich !— She sung this " Song of the shirt !" ... | |
 | Henry Clapp - American literature - 1846 - 238 pages
...meal ! " Oh ! but for one short hour ! A respite, however brief ! No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief! A little weeping would ease...with a voice of dolorous pitch — Would that its tone could reach the rich ! — She sung this " Song of the Shirt ! " RADICALISM. Simply speaking,... | |
 | Henry Clapp - American literature - 1846 - 228 pages
...meal! " Oh! but for one short hour! A respite, however brief! No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief! A little weeping would ease...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—... | |
 | 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...and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She sang the . Song of the Shirt !' " Work ! work ! work ! While the cock is crowing aloof ! And work—... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...low degree, But I must weep that partial fate Made such a churl of me. SF THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. WITR fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red,...and dirt, And still, with a voice of dolorous pitch, She sang the " Song of the Shirt !" " Work ! work ! work ! While the cock is crowing aloof! And work... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 308 pages
...foreign clime ENGLISH DESTITUTION. THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. BY THOMAS HOOD. With fingers weary and woni, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly...and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She sang the ' Song of the Shirt !' " Work ! work ! work ! While the cock is crowing aloof ! And work—... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1846 - 562 pages
...meal ! " Oh but for one short hour! A respite however brief ! No blessed leisure for Love or Hope, But only time for Grief! A little weeping would ease...must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread ! 398 Hood's Poems. [June. " With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in... | |
 | Child rearing - 1846 - 332 pages
...Spring. ' Oh, but for one short hour ! A respite however brief! No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief! A little weeping would ease...their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Would hinder the needle and thread.' Monday Morning. On Sunday, nobody stirred in the house till very... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1849 - 430 pages
...blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief! A little weeping would ease my heartBut in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop...with a voice of dolorous pitch — Would that its tone could reach the rich !— ,1 ... ... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1849 - 424 pages
...meal! " Oh ! but for one short hour! A respite, however brief! No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief! A little weeping would ease...sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread ; Stitch—stitch—stitch! In poverty, hunger and dirt; And still with a voice of dolorous pitchWould... | |
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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... 
