 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 - Seite 282von Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 882 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1863 - 438 Seiten
...smaller pieces, such, as " The Song of the Shirt," are stamped with the purest character of poetry.] 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 I And work !... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - 1863 - 178 Seiten
...admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. THE SONG OF THE SHIRT.— 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... | |
 | 1863 - 150 Seiten
...Pound again Clarion ! Clarion pour thy blast, Sound ! for the Captive's dream of hope is past. ong of % With fingers weary and worn, with eyelids heavy 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-... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1864 - 522 Seiten
...! 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...reach the rich ! — She sang this " Song of the Shirt I " THE LADY'S DEE AM. TUB lady lay in her bed, Her couch so warm and soft, But her sleep was restless... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1864 - 490 Seiten
...But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread ! " With ringers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman...the rich! — • She sang this " Song of the Shirt ! " 11* THE lady lay in her bed, Her couch so warm and soft, But her sleep was restless and broken... | |
 | Frances Martin - 1866 - 506 Seiten
...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...reach the Rich ! She sang this ' Song of the Shirt ! ' T. Hood. XL LESSONS FROM THE GORSE. .. i. jOUNTAIN gorses, ever-golden, Cankered not the whole... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 Seiten
...— 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...pitch — Would that its tone could reach the rich !— THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS. " Drowned ! drowned !" — HAMLET. /~\NE more unfortunate, ^-^ Weary of breath,... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1866 - 568 Seiten
...magnitude and extent of such a catastrophe ? REV. ROBERT "HALL. CLXXXIV.— THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. 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 1" , "Work I work! work! While the cock is crowing °aloof ! And work... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 544 Seiten
...my heart, But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread! " XI. With fingers weary and worn, ' With eyelids heavy...the rich ! — She sang this " Song of the Shirt." CXVI. — UNIVERSAL EMANCIPATION. STJMNER. The following remarks are from a speech on the proposed... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1862 - 610 Seiten
...heart, But, in their briny bed, My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread I" XI. With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...pitch— Would that its tone could reach the rich I— She sung this " Song of the Shirt " EXERCISE LIH. MAN'S WOBKS SHALL FOLLOW HIM. jor.x a. ' I.... | |
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