 | Lucius Osgood - Elocution - 1858 - 494 pages
...16 " 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 !" 11. With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying... | |
 | Joseph Howe - Nova Scotia - 1858 - 668 pages
...Hood's, that began thus : — " With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman Eat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread. Stitch!...and dirt, And still, with a voice of dolorous pitch, She sang 'the song of the Shirt.'" The author of these lines has recently been pensioned, and I have... | |
 | Plague Spot - Great Britain - 1859 - 632 pages
..." 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. • " Witli fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying... | |
 | College student newspapers and periodicals - 1864 - 206 pages
...meal. Oh ! liu t 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 Hinder* needle and thread." Scarcely less beautiful is the " Bridge of Sighs," in which, as in the... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - Readers - 1860 - 450 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 eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly raga, Plying her needle and thread ; Stitch — stitch — stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt ;... | |
 | Advanced reading book - Readers - 1860 - 458 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...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,... | |
 | England - English poetry - 1860 - 532 pages
...soul Yearns after all the joys of social life, And softens with the love of human kind. CHARLES LAMa. 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... | |
 | Warren P. Edgarton - Recitations - 1860 - 530 pages
...be said ; So — my Lord Tomnoddy went home to bed ! Ex. CXLIX.— SONG OF THE SHIRT. THOMAS HOOD. WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy 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... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1861 - 482 pages
...meal ! " O ! 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 ! THE LADY'S DREAM. THE lady lay in her bed, Her couch so warm and soft,... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1861 - 520 pages
...meal ! " O ! but for one short hour ! A respite however brief ! No blessed leisure for love or hopo, But only time for grief ! A little weeping would ease...woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and threw! Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous... | |
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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... 
