 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...  Prose and Verse - Page 210by Thomas Hood - 1845Full view - About this book
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1846 - 562 pages
...it no more of exaggeration than what must be found in all such pictures.* THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. " WITH fingers weary and worn, With eye-lids heavy and...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... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...my heart — But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread !" With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...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... | |
 | 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 rags, Plying her needle and thread — "Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous... | |
 | Henry Clapp - American literature - 1846 - 228 pages
...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 rich !— RADICALISM. Simply speaking, radicalism is that which... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1849 - 430 pages
...ease my heartBut in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread !" With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...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... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...ease my heart; But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread! " With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...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... | |
 | 1850 - 98 pages
...! we are saved !' THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. Poetry by the late Thomas Hood.— Music by Henry BuMell. WITH fingers weary and worn. With eyelids heavy and...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... | |
 | Eliza Cook - 1850 - 432 pages
...sometimes falling there ! " and to similar dens where, as now, " With fingers weary and worn, \Vith eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread " All praise to him, too, for that companion piece, "The Bridge of Sighs," where he sees, in... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 780 pages
...my heart — But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread!" With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...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... | |
 | 1843 - 424 pages
...mournful echo In the hearts of nme who read it, even among us. THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. BY THOMAS HOOD. WITH fingers weary and worn, 'With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rage, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger and dirt, And still... | |
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