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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 She sang the "Song of the... "
Complete poetical works - Page 149
by Thomas Hood - 1862
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...GUI'S. THE 80NQ Of THE SHIRT. WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, 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! " "Work! work! work! While the cock is crowing aloof 1 And work —...
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The New Mirror, Volume 2

George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1843 - 530 pages
...and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch ! stitch ! elich ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt. And still with a voice of dolorous pitchWould that its tone could reach the rich '.— She sang this " Song of the Shirt!" GENTILITY—...
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th. Oxford, Salisbury, Stonehenge, Eton-College, Windsor-Castle, Winchester ...

Johann Georg Kohl - 1844 - 316 pages
...unb 3»irn ! A Woman sate in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread. Stitch! stitch! stitch! ID poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice...reach the Rich ! She sang this „Song of the Shirt!" *) *) SOTit Ringern míibc unb matt, mit Xugenlibern fdjroer unb rott), fufi ein SGSeib in unmeiblidjen...
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The Christian lady's magazine, ed. by Charlotte Elizabeth, Volume 21

Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1844 - 622 pages
...and sighing shall flee away. WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, 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 I" " Work 1 work ! work ! While the cock is crowing aloof! And work...
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Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, Volumes 1-2

1844 - 878 pages
...red, A woman Bat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch— stitch— stitch I In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She sang the ' Song of the Shirt !' ' Work — work — work 1 While the cock is crowing aloof ! And...
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Chambers's Edinburgh Journal

1844 - 858 pages
...her needle and thread — Stitch— stitch— stitch I In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still witb a voice of dolorous pitch, Would that its tone could reach the lUch I She sang this ' Bang of the Shirt!' G RATIFYING FACTS RESPECTING DECAYED AUTHORS. [Abridged...
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Serious poems

Thomas Hood - 1845 - 310 pages
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The Poets and Poetry of England, in the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pages
...me. 2r THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. WITR fingera weary and wom, 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 !" " Work ! work ! work ! While the cock is crowing aloof! And work...
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Prose and Verse, Volumes 1-2

Thomas Hood - 1845 - 442 pages
...worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and threadStitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger, 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...
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Prose and Verse, Volume 1

Thomas Hood - 1845 - 434 pages
...worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and threadStitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger, 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...
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