 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...  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal - Page 471844Full view - About this book
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1863 - 614 pages
...1 10. "Oh ! but for one short hour! A respite, however brief! No blessed leisure for love t>r hope, But only time for grief! . A little weeping would...must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread I" 11. Wifli fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying... | |
 | Lydia Folger Fowler - Temperance - 1863 - 250 pages
...meal. " ' 0, 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...stop, for every drop, Hinders needle and thread.. " I should have been comparatively happy if I could only, with all my strenuous exertions and rigid... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1863 - 438 pages
...1 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 - i, My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders the needle and thread ! With fingers weary and worn,... | |
 | Thomas Hood - English poetry - 1864 - 490 pages
...meal ! " O ! 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...for every drop Hinders needle and thread ! " With ringers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle... | |
 | Frederick Samuel Newell - 1865 - 80 pages
...for one short year To be some good man's wife, Even if I were left a widow All the rest of my life. A little weeping would ease my heart, But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Is fatal to "carmine red." With a heart that was tired to death Of being so old a maid, A milliner... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - English poetry - 1866 - 574 pages
...meal ! " 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...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... | |
 | Frances Martin - English poetry - 1866 - 506 pages
...meal ! ' 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...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... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Readers (Secondary) - 1866 - 568 pages
...meall " Oh, but for one short hour ! A "respite however brief I No blessed leisure for Love or Hope, But only time for grief ! A little weeping would ease...must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread 1" With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her... | |
 | Susan Bogert Warner - 1866 - 306 pages
...Tears are often too much of a luxury," said my grandmother. " Do you remember Hood's lines ? — ' A little weeping "would ease my heart, — But in their briny bed The tears must stop ; for every drop Hinders needle and thread.' " " Who said that, grandmamma ?''... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1867 - 464 pages
...of want " OhJ but for one short hourl A respite however brief! No blessed leisure for Love or Hope, But only time for Grief ! A little weeping would ease...With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch I stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And... | |
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