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 advanced reader - Strana 53autor/autoři: Scottish school-book assoc - 1863Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
| Thomas Hood - 1861 - 482 str.
...weakness, Her evil behavior, And leaving, with meekness* Her sins to her Saviour ! THE SONG OF THE -SHEET. WITH fingers weary and worn, With .eyelids heavy and...rags, Plying her needle and thread —— Stitch! stiteh! stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She sang the... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1861 - 520 str.
...weakness, Her evil behavior, And leaving, with meekness, Her sins to her Saviour ! THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her ncedle and thread — Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice... | |
| Richard Newton - 1861 - 326 str.
...It was called " The Song of the Shirt." It described a poor woman at her work, iu this way : — " With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rag Plying her needle and thread — • Stitch— stitch— stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt,... | |
| English poets - 1862 - 626 str.
...ease my heart, But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread." With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...and dirt ; And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, Would that its tone could reach the rich ! She sang this " Song of the Shirt 1" A PARENTAL ODE TO MY... | |
| George Vandenhoff - 1862 - 382 str.
...; it is difficult to say in which he excelled; he held the master key to each avenue to the heart.} WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...Plying her needle and thread, — Stitch ! stitch I stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still, with a voice of dolorous pitch, She sang the "... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1862 - 522 str.
...ease my heart, But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread ! " With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat hi unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread - Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and... | |
| 1863 - 150 str.
...ease my heart, but in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop hinders needle and thread — With fingers weary and worn, with eyelids heavy and...and dirt ; And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, (Would that its tones could reach the rich !) She sang this — " Song of the Shirt." & $salm of fife.... | |
| Stephen C. Massett - 1863 - 382 str.
...recitation of the " Song of a Shirt." It was something like this : With fingers weary and worn — (echo) With eyelids heavy and red A woman sat in unwomanly...with a voice of dolorous pitch She sang the Song of a Shirt . . worn. red. dead. ditch. hurt. stitch. dirt ! And so on. As I am going occasionally to initiate... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 390 str.
...suffering, which was a leading trait in Ilood's nature, and forms an attractive element in his writings.] 1. WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still, with a voice of dolorousi piteh, She sang the "Song of the Shirt!" 2. " Work — work — work ! While the cock is... | |
| Stephen C. Massett - 1863 - 388 str.
...recitation of the " Song of a Shirt." It was something like this : With fingers weary and worn — (echo) With eyelids heavy and red A woman sat in unwomanly...and dirt And still with a voice of dolorous pitch worn. red. K !i R S dead. ditch. hurt. stitch. She sang the Song of a Shirt . . And so on. dirt I As... | |
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