 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
 | Peter Scheckner - 1989 - 360 pages
...deafening shouts of congregated thousands." Thomas Hood The Northern Star nd THE SONG OF THE SHIRT With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A Woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her neddle and thread— Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger and dirt, And still... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 pages
...costs a meal! 'O, 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! 'Seam, and gusset, and band, Band, and gusset, and seam, Work, work, work, Like the Engine that works... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...no life is found, (1. 1-4) CH; EBEV; EnRP; NOBE; OBEV; OBNC; PoEL-4; Son The Song of the Shirt \ I So priketh hem nature in hir corages Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages. (1 rags Plying her needle and thread — Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, (1. 1—6)... | |
 | 1993 - 412 pages
...costs 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...must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread!" [Seam, and gusset, and band, Band, and gusset, and seam, Work, work, work, Like the Engine that works... | |
 | Rob Pope - 1995 - 236 pages
...responsihle act and thought As also in hirth and death. A socialist response to the Duchess's mantle? 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 Hamm - 1995 - 410 pages
...Henry Russell's "The Gambler's Wife," and their own setting of Thomas Hood's "The Song of the Shirt": With fingers weary and worn, With 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 with... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - 1997 - 613 pages
...for children, wrote as early as 1843 a searing piece against the condition of a poor woman at work: With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A Woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch... | |
 | Roger Rosenblatt - 2006 - 248 pages
...living circumstances of factory workers and aroused the public's sympathy, as well as Hood's. He wrote: 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... | |
 | Dolores Bausum - 2001 - 268 pages
...millions of women sewed by hand. Hood rallied the public to take notice of these invisible human beings. 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... | |
 | Laurie M. Carlson - 2003 - 36 pages
...his mansion so he could go back to his first dream — acting! . Excerpt from "The Song of the Shirt" 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... | |
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