 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...  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal - Page 471844Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Hood - 1846 - 672 pages
...meal ! " Oh ! but for one short hour ! A respite, however brief! No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief! A little weeping would ease...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... | |
 | 1846 - 302 pages
...meal ! " Oh but for one short hour ! A respite however brief ! No blessed leisure for Love and Hope, But only time for Grief; A little weeping would ease...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... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1846 - 562 pages
...meal ! " Oh but for one short hour! A respite however brief ! No blessed leisure for Love or Hope, But only time for Grief! A little weeping would ease...must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread ! 398 Hood's Poems. [June. " With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in... | |
 | 1846 - 332 pages
...Spring. ' Oh, but for one short hour ! A respite however brief! No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief! A little weeping would ease...their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Would hinder the needle and thread.' Monday Morning. On Sunday, nobody stirred in the house till very... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...woes of want, Oh but for one short hour! A respite however brief! No blessed leisure for Love or Hope, But only time for Grief ! A little weeping would ease...With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch — stitch — stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt,... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1849 - 430 pages
...blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief! A little weeping would ease my heartBut in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop...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... | |
 | 1850 - 98 pages
...! we are saved !' THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. Poetry by the late Thomas Hood.— Music by Henry BuMell. 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,... | |
 | 1843 - 424 pages
...meal ! " Oh but for one short hour ! A respite however brief! No blessed leisure for Love or Hopo, But only time for Grief! A little weeping would ease...With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle aud thread — Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger and dirt, And... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1851 - 332 pages
...meal ! " Oh, but for one short hour ! A respite however brief ! No blessed leisure for Love or Hope, But only time for Grief ! A little weeping would ease...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 pages
...meal! " Oh ! but for one short hour ! A respite, however brief! No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief! A little weeping would ease...With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread ; Stitch — stitch — stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt ;... | |
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