 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 advanced reader - Page 53by Scottish school-book assoc - 1863Full view - About this book
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1862 - 610 pages
...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 eyelids heavy and...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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1867 - 758 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 red, A woman sat, in unwoajanly rags, Plying her needle and thread : Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and... | |
 | Ebenezer L. Jones - 1867 - 104 pages
...days. Patriotic feelings. Rhetorical display. BacMors1 buttons. The composure of settled distress. With a voice of dolorous pitch she sang the song of the shirt. Entered at Stationer's Hall. His sceptre shows the force of temporal power. These pleasures, melancholy... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Andrew Comstock, Philip Lawrence - 1808 - 596 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 ! She sang this " Song of the Shirt !" EVELYN HOPE. (ROBERT... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 710 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 the " Song of the Shirt ! " Thomaa Hood.... | |
 | Warren P. Edgarton - 1868 - 522 pages
...be said ; So — my Lord Tomnoddy went home to bed l Ex. CXLIX.— 8 ONG OF THE 8 HIS T. THOMAS HOOD WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still, with n. voice of dolorous pitch, She sang the " Song of the Shirt." "Work! work! work! While the cock is... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - 1868 - 636 pages
...leaving, with meekness, Her sins to her Saviour ! T. Bood. •*CLXXVH. BONG OF THE SfflRT. YlfTITH. fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red,...her needle and thread, — Stitch! stitch! stitch! And still, with a voice of dolorous pitch, She sang the " Song of the Shirt." " Work ! work ! work... | |
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