 | Thomas Hood - 1862 - 522 pages
...Hinders needle and thread ! " With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat hi unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread - Stitch...and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, — Would that its tone could reach the rich ! — She sang this " Song of the Shirt I " e* THE LADY'S... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - 1862 - 382 pages
...is difficult to say in which he excelled; he held the master key to each avenue to the heart.} WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red,...Plying her needle and thread, — Stitch ! stitch I stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still, with a voice of dolorous pitch, She sang the "... | |
 | Stow School - 1862 - 320 pages
...upon Stow, of idleness it stands fully acquitted. Like Thomas Hood's shirtmaker, with us it was — " Work — work — work, Till the brain begins to swim,...— work — work, Till the eyes are heavy and dim." All sorts of subjects — History, Mathematics, Grammar, Drilling, &c., &c., &c. ; and all sorts of... | |
 | 1862 - 1164 pages
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 | Stephen C. Massett - 1863 - 382 pages
...recitation of the " Song of a Shirt." It was something like this : With fingers weary and worn — (echo) With eyelids heavy and red A woman sat in unwomanly...with a voice of dolorous pitch She sang the Song of a Shirt . . worn. red. dead. ditch. hurt. stitch. dirt ! And so on. As I am going occasionally to initiate... | |
 | 1863 - 150 pages
...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 red,...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." & $salm of fife.... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 390 pages
...which was a leading trait in Ilood's nature, and forms an attractive element in his writings.] 1. WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red,...poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still, with a voice of dolorousi piteh, She sang the "Song of the Shirt!" 2. " Work — work — work ! While the cock is... | |
 | Stephen C. Massett - 1863 - 388 pages
...recitation of the " Song of a Shirt." It was something like this : With fingers weary and worn — (echo) With eyelids heavy and red A woman sat in unwomanly...and dirt And still with a voice of dolorous pitch worn. red. K !i R S dead. ditch. hurt. stitch. She sang the Song of a Shirt . . And so on. dirt I As... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1863 - 614 pages
...successfully the cause of humanity and religion. 15. THE SONG OF THE SHIST. WITH fingers weary and worn, Wifti eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags,...Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dill,1 And still, with a voice of doi'orous* pitch, She sang the " Song of the Shirt!"1 2. "Work!1... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1863 - 438 pages
...But in their briny bed - i, My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders the needle and thread ! With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red,...unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread. Stitch I stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, Would that... | |
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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... 
