| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1869 - 810 pages
...short hour I 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 finger^ weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly ragu, Plving... | |
| M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 416 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... | |
| Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 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, o«<an»'ii tha taati i \ *; *£'• *5... | |
| Scottish school-book assoc - 1869 - 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 My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders the needle and thread ! With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly... | |
| Philip Lawrence - 1870 - 424 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 I" With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her... | |
| Robert Inglis - 1870 - 592 pages
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| Thomas Wright - 1870 - 326 pages
...more pathetic passage in the " Song of the Shirt" than that in which the sempstress exclaims — " A little weeping would ease my heart, But in their...must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread ;" and the principle embodied in the lines is generally applicable to the poor. To them grief is literally... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1870 - 538 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 ! " XIWith fingers weary find worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1889 - 430 pages
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| Mother Angela Gillespie, Member of the Order of the Holy Cross - 1871 - 664 pages
...short hour 1 A respite, however brief ! No blessed leisure for Love or Hope, But only time for Grief 1 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, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying... | |
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