 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1867 - 758 pages
...my heart, But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread." 11. With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwoajanly rags, Plying her needle and thread : Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - Readers - 1868 - 636 pages
...leaving, with meekness, Her sins to her Saviour ! T. Bood. •*CLXXVH. BONG OF THE SfflRT. YlfTITH. fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red,...her needle and thread, — Stitch! stitch! stitch! And still, with a voice of dolorous pitch, She sang the " Song of the Shirt." " Work ! work ! work... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 712 pages
...though not of lands ; And, having nothing, yet hath all. Sir Henry Walton LXXII. TEE SONCf OF THE SHIRT. WITH fingers weary and worn, "With eyelids heavy and...sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread — SCttOOL-GIRL'S Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger and dirt, And still, with a voice of... | |
 | Richard Edwards, John Russell Webb - Readers - 1868 - 510 pages
...meal ! 10. " 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 J But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread !" 11. With fingers... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 pages
...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...fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, o«<an»'ii tha taati i \ *; *£'• *5 bwili SIB'tw Am desa and blood a« c " Work— work — work... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1869 - 810 pages
...a meal! •' Oh I but for one short hour I 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 1" With finger^ weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly ragu, Plving... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1869 - 438 pages
...a meal J Oh ! but for ono short hour — A respite, however brief ! No blessed leisure for love or hope, . But only time for grief ! A little weeping...briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders the needle and thread ! With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1870 - 538 pages
...costs a meal I x. " 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...must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread ! " XIWith fingers weary find worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying... | |
 | Philip Lawrence - English language - 1870 - 422 pages
...meall " 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...must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread I" With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 pages
...the Song of the Shirt is the lament of a poor overwrought sempstress crying aloud in her misery : — With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...needle and thread. Stitch— stitch— stitch ! In hunger, poverty, dirt ; And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She sang the Song of the Shirt ! Work... | |
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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... 
