 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 710 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... | |
 | Andrew Comstock, Philip Lawrence - 1808 - 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, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - 1868 - 636 pages
...of want, And the walk that costs a meal ! " Oh ! for but one short hour, 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 her... | |
 | Richard Edwards, John Russell Webb - 1868 - 510 pages
...blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief! • A little weeping would ease my heart J But in their briny bed My tears 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... | |
 | 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 - 422 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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Oh, but for one 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 briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread! 
