 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...  A Treasure Chest of Memories - Page 175by Joe Mitchell Chapple - 1911 - 447 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 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...and dirt ; And still, with a voice of dolorous pitch — Would that its tone could reach the rich !— THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS. " Drowned ! drowned !" — HAMLET.... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1866 - 568 pages
...rah-pnk-keena; " And the guests of Hiawatha, Weary with the heat of summer, Slumbered in the sultry wigwam. With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...rags, Plying her needle and thread,— Stitch! stitch I stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still, with a voice of dolorous plica, She sang the "... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 544 pages
...my heart, But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread! " XI. With fingers weary and worn, ' With eyelids heavy...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." CXVI. — UNIVERSAL... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...my heart; But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread I" 11. 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 !" XC VIII. —THE... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 510 pages
...my heart} But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread !" 11. 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 !" XCVIIL— THE... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1862 - 610 pages
...as the dove, (I'll tell you what, my love, I cannot write, unless he's sent above!) , EXERCISE LII. SONG OF THE SHIRT. With fingers weary and worn, With...her needle and thread,— Stitch ! stitch ! stitch I In poverty, hunger, and dirt, II. " Work! work ! work ! While the cock is crowing aloof! And work—work—work,... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1867 - 758 pages
...and +indissolubly united with the ''"celestial substance. CLVIII.— SONG OF THE SHIRT. FROM HOOD. 1. WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...rags, +Plying her needle and thread; Stitch! stitch! stitoh! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of +dolorous pitch, She sang the "Song... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1867 - 464 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...unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch I stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, Would that... | |
 | Charles Collyns Walkey - 1868 - 76 pages
...is the miraculous history of it, not only in particular instances but in general. — Butler. A. 14. With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...of dolorous pitch She sang the song of the shirt. Oh, men, with sisters dear, Oh, men, with mothers and wives, It is not linen you're wearing out, But... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1868 - 544 pages
...England to the movement on behalf of the distressed needle' women. See in Index, DOLOROUS, SEW, HOOD. I. WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...dolorous pitch, She sang the " Song of the Shirt." n. " Work ! work! work ! While the cock is crowing aloof! And work — work — work, Till the stars... | |
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