 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 Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song - Page 282by Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 882 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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,...reach the rich !) She sang this ' ' Song of the Shirt. " LXXIV.— THE GLOVE AND THE LIONS.— Leigh Hunt. KINO Francis was a hearty king, and loved a royal... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1856 - 1048 pages
...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...Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and flirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, Would that its tone could reach the rich ! She sang... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...large discourse, that looks before and after.' He ceases to be a man, and becomes a thing." — Parker. WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She sang the " Song of the Shirt I" "Work! work! work! While the cock is crowing aloof ! And work !... | |
 | 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,...reach the Rich ! She sang this " Song of the Shirt ! " THE LADY'S DREAM. THE lady lay in her bed, Her couch so warm and soft, But her sleep was restless... | |
 | 1857 - 452 pages
...! A respite however brief! No blessed leisure for Love and Hope, But only time for grief ! A little weeping would ease my heart, But in their briny bed...with a voice of dolorous pitch — Would that its tones could reach the rich ! — She sang this " Song of the Shirt!" THOMAS HOOD. Jauq. IT was at Rome... | |
 | Lucius Osgood - 1858 - 494 pages
...heart ; But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread !" 11. With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...still, with a voice of dolorous pitch, (Would that its song could reach the rich 1) She sung this " Song of the Shirt." LESSON LXI. THE VULTURE AND THE CAPTIVE... | |
 | 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...dirt, And still, with a, voice of dolorous pitch, She sang 'the song of the Shirt.'" The author of these lines has recently been pensioned, and I have... | |
 | Plague Spot - 1859 - 632 pages
...gifted author, — the simple eulogy inscribed upon whose tomb is, "HE SANG 'THE SONG OF THE SHERT.'" " With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She sang 'The Song of the Shirt!' " Work ! work ! work ! While the cock is crowing aloof ! And work... | |
 | England - 1860 - 532 pages
...soul Yearns after all the joys of social life, And softens with the love of human kind. CHARLES LAMa. WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She sang the " Song of the Shirt." "Work — work — work ! While the cock is crowing aloof: And work... | |
 | Warren P. Edgarton - 1860 - 530 pages
...be said ; So — my Lord Tomnoddy went home to bed ! Ex. CXLIX.— SONG OF THE SHIRT. THOMAS HOOD. WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...dirt, And still, with a, voice of dolorous pitch, She sang the " Song of the Shirt." " Work ! work ! work ! While the cock is crowing aloof! And work... | |
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