 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
 | John Dudley Philbrick - 1868 - 636 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...needle and thread — Stitch ! — stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, — Would that its song could... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 712 pages
...though not of lands ; And, having nothing, yet hath all. Sir Henry Walton LXXII. TEE SONCf OF THE SHIRT. WITH fingers weary and worn, "With eyelids heavy and...sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread — SCttOOL-GIRL'S Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger and dirt, And still, with a voice of... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 pages
...laid my hand upon thy mane, as I do here. 32.— THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. THOMAS HOOD. [See p. 429.") WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...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... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 416 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1869 - 810 pages
...But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread 1" With finger^ weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly ragu, Plving her needle and thread; Stitch — stitch — stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt; And... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1870 - 538 pages
...England to the movement on behalf of the distressed needle, women. See in Index, DOLOKOUS, SEW, HOOD. 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, She sang the " Song of the... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 pages
...the Song of the Shirt is the lament of a poor overwrought sempstress crying aloud in her misery : — With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...her needle and thread. Stitch— stitch— stitch ! In hunger, poverty, dirt ; And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She sang the Song of the Shirt... | |
 | Philip Lawrence - 1870 - 422 pages
...whom all glories are ; And glory to our sovereign lord, King Henry of Navarre. THE SONG OF THE SHIKT. 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!"... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...my heart ; But in their briny bed Ыу tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread ! " Freedom to worship God. FELICIA HEMANS. THE FREEMAN....freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are sl I In poverty, hunger, and dirt ; And still with a voice of dolorous pitch — Would that its tone could... | |
 | Denys Thompson - 1978 - 252 pages
...undistinguished poet, wrote The Song of the Shirt (1843), of which the first stanza runs: With fingers wean, and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A Woman sat,...Plying 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!'... | |
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