 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 - 1856 - 474 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,... | |
 | David Charles Bell - 1856 - 466 pages
...however 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,...eye-lids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, plying her needle and thread. Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! in poverty, hunger, and dirt ; And still... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1856 - 1048 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, Bat in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread !'' With fingers... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1857 - 800 pages
...short hour t A respite, however brief! No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief 1 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... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1857 - 420 pages
...brief! No blessed leisure for Love or Hope, But only time for Grief ! A little weeping would ease iny 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 still... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1857 - 456 pages
...meal! 10. Oh 1 but for one short hour! A trespite, however brief 1 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." 11. With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying... | |
 | Historical account - 1857 - 106 pages
...connection with sin, it might have proved suggestive to him when he wrote his song of " The Shirt :" 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, and... | |
 | Lucius Osgood - 1858 - 494 pages
...16 " 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 !" 11. With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying... | |
 | Joseph Howe - 1858 - 664 pages
...might have been good ground of complaint. There was a little poem of Hood's, that began thus: — •'' 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,... | |
 | 1858 - 424 pages
...spring. Oh ! but for one short hour ! A respite, however brief! Ho blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief! A little weeping would ease my heart, Bat in their briny place My tears must stop, for every drop Woold my labor'd lines deface. With fingers... | |
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