 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...  Our National Sinews; or, a word on, to, and for the working classes - Page 47by Stephen SHIRLEY - 1855Full view - About this book
 | George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1843 - 530 pages
...for poor suffering humanity than a thousand homilies, or all the arguments of the preem. With fingen weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rugs, Plying her needle and tbread — Stitсh ! stitrh ! stilch '. In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And... | |
 | Johann Georg Kohl - 1844 - 316 pages
...@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, With eyelids heavy and...her needle and thread — Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! la poverty, hunger, and dirt, *)'<Se Cat fid) forbid), wie une bie Rettungen bcrtdjtetcn, }u ttyrcn... | |
 | 1844 - 858 pages
...fïrief ! A little weeping would case my heart ; liut in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread !' With fingers weary...With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly nure, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch— stitch— stitch I In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1844 - 622 pages
...Grief 1 A little weeping would ease my heart, Bat in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop 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 — Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger,... | |
 | Johann Georg Kohl - 1844 - 316 pages
...for Grief! A little weeping would ease my heart, Bat in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread ! ") With fingers weary and •worn, With eyelids heavy and red, ale wollten fie mir geigen il; ru fonnigen gebern unb mid) mit bem grueling foppen. *) O nur einmal... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 —...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 - 1845 - 442 pages
...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, 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,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Henry Clapp - 1846 - 238 pages
...grief! A little weeping would ease my heart — But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread ! " With fingers weary...with a voice of dolorous pitch — Would that its tone could reach the rich ! — She sung this " Song of the Shirt ! " RADICALISM. Simply speaking,... | |
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