 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...  The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song - Page 282by Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 882 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Hood - 1867 - 464 pages
...hourl 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...unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch I stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, Would that... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...paws, and then they'll haul out honey, bees, and all." XCVII.— THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. THOMAS HOOD. 1. With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...and dirt, And still, with a voice of dolorous pitch, She sang the " Song of the Shirt !" 2. "Work! work! work! While the cock is crowing aloof ! And work... | |
 | Richard Edwards - Elocution - 1867 - 510 pages
...and then they '11 haul out honey, bees, and all" XC VII.— THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. THOMAS HOOD. 1. With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...and dirt, And still, with a voice of dolorous pitch, She sang the " Song of the Shirt !" 2. " Work ! work ! work ! While the cock is crowing aloof! And... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - American poetry - 1868 - 710 pages
...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...that its tone could reach the rich ! — She sang the " Song of the Shirt ! " Thomaa Hood. LXXIIL OUR SISTER. | ~TP many flights of crazy stairs, \J... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - Readers - 1868 - 636 pages
...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 briny bed...with a voice of dolorous pitch, — Would that its song could reach the rich ! — She sang this " Song of the Shirt." T. Hood. CLXXVIII. LOOK ALOFT.... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 712 pages
...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...her needle and thread ; Stitch— stitch— stitch 1 In poverty, hunger, and dirt ; And still with a voice of dolorous pitch — Would that its tone could... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1868 - 544 pages
...England to the movement on behalf of the distressed needle' women. See in Index, DOLOROUS, SEW, HOOD. I. WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...and dirt, And still, with a voice of dolorous pitch, She sang the " Song of the Shirt." n. " Work ! work! work ! While the cock is crowing aloof! And work... | |
 | Charles Collyns Walkey - 1868 - 76 pages
...is the miraculous history of it, not only in particular instances but in general. — Butler. A. 14. With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She sang the song of the shirt. Oh, men, with sisters dear, Oh, men, with mothers and wives, It is... | |
 | Andrew Comstock, Philip Lawrence - Elocution - 1808 - 596 pages
...Come uppe Jetty, follow, follow, Jetty, to the milking-shed." THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. (THOMAS HOOD.) With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She sang the " Song of the Shirt !" " Work ! work ! work ! While the cock is crowing aloof ! And work... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1869 - 438 pages
...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...that its tone could reach the rich ! She sang this " Soag of the Shirt," Hour, FIRST NOTIONS OF GEOLOGY. Agglomerate, lad, glomus,•L.1 to collect into... | |
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