 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
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1844 - 622 pages
...futurity, where the tears shall be wiped from many a mourner's eye, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. 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 I" " Work 1 work ! work ! While the cock is crowing aloof! And work... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 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...reach the rich !— She sang this - Song of the Shirt !" SILENCE. is a silence where hath been no sound, There is a silence where no sound may be, In the... | |
 | Thomas Hood - English literature - 1845 - 434 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...— Would that its tone could reach the rich !She sung this " Song of the shirt !" NEW AND VALUABLE BOOKS, PUBLISHED BT WILEY AND PUTNAM, 161 Broadway,... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1845 - 442 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...— Would that its tone could reach the rich !She sung this " Song of the shirt !" Glimpses of the Wonderful. A book of interest and instruction for... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 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...reach the rich !— She sang this " Song of the Shirt !" SILENCE. TRERE is a silence where hath been no sound, There is a silence where no sound may be,... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 308 pages
...! A respite however brief ! No blessed leisure for Love and Hope, But only time for Grief; A little weeping would ease my heart, But in their briny bed...the Rich, — She sang this » Song of the Shirt." A STARVATION ANTHEM FOR THE ROYAL CHRISTENING. Bring forth the babe in pomp and lace, While thousands... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1846 - 672 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...Would that its tone could reach the rich !— She sung this " Song of the shirt !" ... | |
 | Henry Clapp - American literature - 1846 - 238 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...Would that its tone could reach the rich ! — She sung this " Song of the Shirt ! " RADICALISM. Simply speaking, radicalism is that which goes to the... | |
 | Henry Clapp - American literature - 1846 - 228 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...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—... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1846 - 562 pages
...it no more of exaggeration than what must be found in all such pictures.* THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. " WITH fingers weary and worn, With eye-lids 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... | |
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