 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
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 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...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,... | |
 | John Sartain, Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - 1851 - 504 pages
...short hour, To know I am fit to stand In white array by the altar's side, And clasp a loyal hand ! A little weeping would ease my heart ; « But in their briny bed The tears must stop. I must win to-night : — They would make my eyelids red. With a voice of beguiling... | |
 | 1852 - 1080 pages
...a 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 my heart. Bat in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread !" With fingers... | |
 | Anna U. Russell - 1853 - 580 pages
...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... | |
 | Elizabeth Nicholson - 1853 - 412 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 raga, Plying her needle and thread ! Stitch ! — stitch ! — stitch ! In poverty, hunger and dirt,... | |
 | 1853 - 442 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,... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1853 - 422 pages
...short hour ! A respite, however brief! No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief I A little weeping would ease my heart — But in their...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... | |
 | 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 red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch, Stitch, Stitch, In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 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 my heart — But iu their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread!" With fingers weary... | |
 | 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 in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread— Stitch— stitch— stitch! In poverty hunger and dirt, And still... | |
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