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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 reach the... "
The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse - Page 51
edited by - 1913 - 1023 pages
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed — she had Another morn than GUI'S. THE 80NQ Of THE SHIRT. WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids..."Work! work! work! While the cock is crowing aloof 1 And work — work — work, Till the stars shine through the roof! It's oh! to be a slave Along with...
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The New Mirror, Volume 2

George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1843 - 530 pages
...ease my heart, But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and tbread ! With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...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...
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Reisen in England und Wales, Volume 3

Johann Georg Kohl - 1844 - 316 pages
...9íáf)ermnen unb @ti(ferinnen bee @r{gebirgea unb an= berer Orte ju Siebe e¿ beffer úberfe^en möge, The Song of the Shirt. With fingers weary and worn,...her needle and thread — Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! la poverty, hunger, and dirt, *)'<Se Cat fid) forbid), wie une bie Rettungen bcrtdjtetcn, }u ttyrcn...
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The Christian lady's magazine, ed. by Charlotte Elizabeth, Volume 21

Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1844 - 622 pages
...Hinders needle and thread ! " With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sate in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread —...and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, — Would that its tone could reach the Rich She sang this " Song of the Shirt! " THE CHRISTIAN LADY'S...
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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...the ' Song of the Shirt !' ' Work — work — work 1 While the cock is crowing aloof ! And work — work — work ! Till the stars shine through the roof...
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th. Oxford, Salisbury, Stonehenge, Eton-College, Windsor-Castle, Winchester ...

Johann Georg Kohl - 1844 - 316 pages
...of London" (bie ©efelU fdjaft gut SBeföüguna. bet ипдШссЦфеп &onbonet 9tai;aïmicii.) 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 work! work! work! Till the stars shine through the roof? It's...
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The Poets and Poetry of England, in the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 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...and dirt ; And still with a voice of dolorous pitch — Would that its tone could reach the rich !— She sang this - Song of the Shirt !" SILENCE. is...
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Prose and Verse, Volumes 1-2

Thomas Hood - 1845 - 442 pages
...Remorse was so extreme ; And yet, oh yet, that many a Dame Would dream the Lady's Dream ! PART 11. 15 THE SONG OF THE SHIRT, WITH fingers weary and worn,...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,...
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Prose and Verse, Volume 1

Thomas Hood - 1845 - 434 pages
...And yet, oh yet, that many a Dame Would dream the Lady's Dream ! PART 11. 15 THE SONG OF THE SHIET. WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...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,...
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The Dublin Review, Volume 20

Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1846 - 562 pages
...briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread ! 398 Hood's Poems. [June. " With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, Would that its tone could reach the rich ! She sang this " Song of the Shirt !" Of the longer poems...
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