| George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 390 pages
...short hour ! A respite4, however brief! No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief! A little weeping would ease my heart — But in their...must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread ! " 11. With fingers weary and worn, Stitch *— stitch — stitch — In poverty, hunger, and dirt,... | |
| Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1863 - 614 pages
...short hour! A respite, however brief! No blessed leisure for love t>r hope, But only time for grief! . A little weeping would ease my heart — But in their...must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread I" 11. Wifli fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying... | |
| John Charles Curtis - 1863 - 178 pages
...short hoar ! A respite however brief! No blessed leisure for Love or Hope, But only time for Grief ! A little weeping would ease my heart, But in their...must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread 1 " With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying... | |
| Lydia Folger Fowler - 1863 - 250 pages
...short hour, A respite, however brief, No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief. A little weeping would ease my heart, But in their...stop, for every drop, Hinders needle and thread.. " I should have been comparatively happy if I could only, with all my strenuous exertions and rigid... | |
| Scottish school-book assoc - 1863 - 438 pages
...hour—• A respite, however brief! No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief! A little weeping would ease my heart, But in their briny bed - i, My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders the needle and thread ! With fingers weary and worn,... | |
| Frederick Samuel Newell - 1865 - 80 pages
...for one short year To be some good man's wife, Even if I were left a widow All the rest of my life. A little weeping would ease my heart, But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Is fatal to "carmine red." With a heart that was tired to death Of being so old a maid, A milliner... | |
| John Epy Lovell - 1866 - 568 pages
...short hour ! A "respite however brief I No blessed leisure for Love or Hope, But only time for grief ! A little weeping would ease my heart; But in their...must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread 1" With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her... | |
| John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 pages
...short hour — A respite however brief! No blessed leisure for Love or Hope, But only time for Grief! A little weeping would ease my heart ; But in their...must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread !" With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying... | |
| Frances Martin - 1866 - 506 pages
...short hour ! A respite however brief! No blessed leisure for Love or Hope, But only time for Grief! A little weeping would ease my heart, But in their...must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread ! ' With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A Woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying... | |
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