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" 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... "
The Wheat-sheaf; Or, Gleanings for the Wayside and Fireside ... - Page 158
1853 - 416 pages
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Hot Corn: Life Scenes in New York Illustrated. Including the Story of Little ...

Solon Robinson - New York (N.Y.) - 1854 - 436 pages
...over. Head. CHAPTER VIII. ATHALIA, THE SEWING GIRL. " How fall of briars is this working day world." " With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread." ATHALIA wore not unwomanly rags at the period when I shall commence her history. She was clad in the...
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Select specimens of English poetry

Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...costs a 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...weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red; A woman sate in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread ! Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger,...
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The Popular lecturer [afterw.] Pitman's Popular lecturer (and ..., Volumes 1-3

Henry Pitman - 1856 - 1048 pages
...costs a 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 my heart, Bat in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread !'' With fingers...
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McGuffey's New Sixth Eclectic Reader: Exercises in Rhetorical Reading, with ...

William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1857 - 456 pages
...a meal! 10. Oh 1 but for one short hour! A trespite, however brief 1 No blessed leisure for Love or Hope, But only time for Grief! A little weeping would...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...
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English Literature of the Nineteenth Century: On the Plan of the Author's ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1857 - 800 pages
...now 'tis little joy To know I'm further off from heaven Than when I was a hoy. THE BONG OF THE 8HIRT. With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rage, Plying her needle and thread— Stiteh! stitch! stiteh! • In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And...
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Merry's Museum and Parley's Magazine, Volumes 31-32

1856 - 412 pages
...shadow I thank For sometimes falling there ! With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and rod, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch ! Stitch 1 Stitoh ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still witli a voice of dolorous pitch, She sang the "...
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An historical account of needlework

Historical account - 1857 - 106 pages
...connection with sin, it might have proved suggestive to him when he wrote his song of " The Shirt :" With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sate in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread. Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger, and...
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Osgood's Progressive Fifth Reader: Embracing a System of Instruction in the ...

Lucius Osgood - Elocution - 1858 - 494 pages
...meal ! 16 " 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...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...
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Hot Corn: Life Scenes in New York Illustrated. Including the Story of Little ...

Solon Robinson - New York (N.Y.) - 1858 - 434 pages
...over. Read. CHAPTER VIIL ATHALIA, THE SEWING GIRL. " How full of briars i> this working day world." ** With fingers weary and worn. With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat In unwomanly rags, Flying her needle and thread." ATIIALIA wore not unwomanly rags at the period when I shall commence...
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The Lutheran Home Journal, Volume 3

Lutheran Church - 1858 - 424 pages
...the spring. Oh ! but for one short hour ! A respite, however brief! Ho blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief! A little weeping would ease my heart, Bat in their briny place My tears must stop, for every drop Woold my labor'd lines deface. With fingers...
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