 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...  Labor, with Preludes on Current Events - Page 156by Joseph Cook - 1880 - 295 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Advanced reading book - 1860 - 458 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 red, A woman sate in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread ! Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger,... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1861 - 394 pages
...weakness, Her evil behaviour, And leaving, with meekness, Her sins to her Saviour ! THE SONG OF THE SHIRT, WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...her needle and thread — Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She sang the " Song of the Shirt... | |
 | John Williamson Palmer - 1861 - 540 pages
...With envy pale 'twill lose its dye. And Yorkish turn again. ANONYMOUS. r* Ifi!) THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. WITH fingers weary and worn. With eyelids heavy and...Plying her needle and thread, Stitch, stitch, stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt ; 170 T;;E r~w ' j3:.7C LIBRARY A ~TOP, LENOX IDN FOUNDATIONS And still... | |
 | Richard Newton - 1861 - 290 pages
...it. It was called " The Song of the Shirt." It described a poor woman at her work in this way, — " With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...her needle and thread — Stitch— stitch— stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, She sang the ' Song of the... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1861 - 562 pages
...my heart — But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread I " With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...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... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1861 - 482 pages
...weakness, Her evil behavior, And leaving, with meekness* Her sins to her Saviour ! THE SONG OF THE -SHEET. WITH fingers weary and worn, With .eyelids heavy and...rags, Plying her needle and thread —— Stitch! stiteh! stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She sang the... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1861 - 520 pages
...weakness, Her evil behavior, And leaving, with meekness, Her sins to her Saviour ! THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her ncedle and thread — Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice... | |
 | Richard Newton - 1861 - 326 pages
...It was called " The Song of the Shirt." It described a poor woman at her work, iu this way : — " With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rag Plying her needle and thread — • Stitch— stitch— stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt,... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 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...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... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - 1862 - 382 pages
...; it 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...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 "... | |
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