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
| Joseph Howe - 1858 - 668 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 Eat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread. Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger and... | |
| Plague Spot - 1859 - 632 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...must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread. • " Witli fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying... | |
| 1864 - 206 pages
...meal. Oh ! liu t 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 Hinder* needle and thread." Scarcely less beautiful is the " Bridge of Sighs," in which, as in the... | |
| Metta Victoria Fuller Victor - 1859 - 314 pages
...for one short year To be some good man's wife, Even if I were left a widow All the rest of my life. A little weeping would ease my heart, But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Is fatal to " carmine red." With a heart that was tired to death Of being so old a maid, A milliner... | |
| John William Stanhope Hows - 1860 - 450 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 raga, Plying her needle and thread ; Stitch — stitch — stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt ;... | |
| Warren P. Edgarton - 1860 - 530 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... | |
| Advanced reading book - 1860 - 458 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,... | |
| England - 1860 - 532 pages
...meal ! " Oh, but for one short hour I A respite, however brief! No blessed leisure for Love or Hope, But only time for grief! A little weeping would ease my heart, But in their briny head My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread." With fingers weary and worn, With... | |
| John Williamson Palmer - 1861 - 540 pages
...meal ! " 0 ! 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 - 1861 - 520 pages
...meal ! " O ! 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 and threw! Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still... | |
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