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
| 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,... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1854 - 428 pages
...rneal ! " 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... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1854 - 424 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 still... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1854 - 536 pages
...brief ! No blessed leisure for love or hope. But only time for grief ! A little weeping would case my heart, But in their briny bed My tears must stop,...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... | |
| Margaret Maria Gordon - 1854 - 270 pages
...there." " 0 ! hut 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...must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread !" HOOD. It is said by the Political Economist, that " the lowest point to which wages can be permanently... | |
| 1854 - 212 pages
...Hood,— " 0 ! 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...briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders my needle and thread." True it is, however, that the want of a comfortable home has caused many such... | |
| Margaret Maria Gordon - 1854 - 280 pages
...there." " 0 ! 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...their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hiuders needle and thread i" HOOD. It is said by the Political Economist, that " the lowest point to... | |
| Stephen SHIRLEY - 1855 - 210 pages
...meal. Oh ! but for one short hour, A respite, however brief, No blessed leisure for love nor hope, But only time for grief. A little weeping would ease...heart, But in their briny bed, My tears must stop for ev'ry drop Hinders needle and thread. With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman... | |
| Solon Robinson - 1854 - 436 pages
...over. Head. CHAPTER VIII. ATHALIA, THE SEWING GIRL. " How fall of briars is this working day world." " With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread." ATHALIA wore not unwomanly rags at the period when I shall commence... | |
| SOLON ROBINSON - 1854 - 436 pages
...YORK. 135 CHAPTER VIII. ATHALIA, THE SEWING GIRL. " How full of briars la this working day world." " With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread." ATHALIA wore not unwomanly rags at the period when I shall commence... | |
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