 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...  Songs of Three Centuries - Page 160edited by - 1875 - 352 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Mackay - 1851 - 332 pages
...ease my heart, But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread." With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch — Would that its tone could reach the Hich ! She sang this " Song of the Shirt ! " DEAR IS MY LITTLE... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 pages
...my heart — But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread!" With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...and dirt ; And still with a voice of dolorous pitch — Would that its tone could reach the rich ! — She sung this " Song of the Shirt !" THE LADY'S... | |
 | 1843 - 424 pages
...THOMAS HOOD. WITH fingers weary and worn, 'With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rage, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch! stitch! stitch!...sang the " Song of the Shirt !" " Work ! work ! work 1 While (he cock is crowing aloof! And work — work — work, Till the stars shine through the roof... | |
 | 1852 - 1080 pages
...tears shall be wiped from many a mourner's eye, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. WITH ringers weary and worn ? With eyelids heavy and red, A woman...dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She sans the " Sons of the Shirt!" " Work ! work ! work ! While the cock is crowing aloof! And work—work—work,... | |
 | Edwin Hubbell Chapin - 1853 - 204 pages
...to the very motion of the needle-woman's toil, and is the most articulate expression of her woe. " With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...work — work ! Till the stars shine through the roof ! It's oh ! to be a slave Along with the barbarous Turk, Where woman has never a soul to save, If TIIIS... | |
 | 1853 - 560 pages
...of human kind. CHASLES LAi THOMAS HOOD. 187 0f % WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy aud red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle...Till the stars shine through the roof, It 's Oh ! to he a slave Along with the barbarous Turk, Wiiere woman has never a soul to save, If this is Christian... | |
 | Elizabeth Nicholson - 1853 - 412 pages
...tuft floating on the slightest breeze bears with it the germs of a noxious weed. 14 ong rf tye fjiirt WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...Shirt !" " Work ! — work ! — work ! While the the cock is crowing aloof ! And work — work — work, 'Till the stars shine through the roof ! It's... | |
 | Anna U. Russell - 1853 - 580 pages
...ease my heart ; But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread." With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...and dirt ; And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, — Would that its tone could reach the rich ! — EXERCISE CLXXVI. FREDERIKA BREMER. Anon. WHAT is... | |
 | 1853 - 442 pages
...ease my heart, But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread!" With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch — Would that its tones could reach the rich ! — She sang this " Song of the Shirt !" THOMAS HOOD.... | |
 | 1853 - 102 pages
...their brinv bed My tears must stop, lor every drop Hinders needle unJ thread." " With fingers wcnry and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat...In poverty hunger and dirt, And still with a voice ol dolorous pitch. Would that its tuns could reach the iicft* She sang this "Sony of the Shirt!" THE... | |
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