 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...  Labor, with Preludes on Current Events - Page 182by Joseph Cook - 1880 - 295 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 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 red, A woman sate in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread ! Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger,... | |
 | 1852 - 1080 pages
...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,... | |
 | Anna U. Russell - 1853 - 580 pages
...one weightier theme, — oh ! need I mention DINNER T EXERCISE CLXXV. THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. Hood. WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...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... | |
 | 1853 - 442 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...needle and thread ! Stitch !— stitch ! — stitch ! In poverty, hunger and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch — Would that its tones could... | |
 | Edwin Hubbell Chapin - 1853 - 204 pages
...to the very motion of the needle-woman's toil, and is the most articulate expression of her woe. " With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...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 shirt.... | |
 | 1853 - 102 pages
...their brinv bed My tears must stop, lor every drop Hinders needle unJ thread." " With fingers wcnry and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat...her needle and thread— Stitch— stitch— stitch! In poverty hunger and dirt, And still with a voice ol dolorous pitch. Would that its tuns could reach... | |
 | Elizabeth Nicholson - 1853 - 412 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 red, A woman sat, in unwomanly raga, Plying her needle and thread ! Stitch ! — stitch ! — stitch ! In poverty, hunger and dirt,... | |
 | 1853 - 560 pages
...and thread." 190 LINES WRITTEN IN A HIGHLAND GLEN. With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heary and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch— stiloh— stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, Would that... | |
 | 1853 - 790 pages
...fragments of eome of the darker trap rocks or dark porphyries. WAGES OF THE SHIRT SEWERS Ш NEW YORK. u With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman eat, in unwomanly rage, Plying her needle and thread. Stitch— etilch— stitch ! In poverty, hunger,... | |
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