 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 - Stran 282avtor: Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 882 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 416 strani
...curseth deeper in the silence Than the strong man in his wrath ! " THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. Thomas Hood. 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!" "Work! work! work! While the cock is crowing aloof! And work —... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 strani
...laid my hand upon thy mane, as I do here. 32.— THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. THOMAS HOOD. [See p. 429.") 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 !" " Work — work — work ! While the cock is crowing aloof; And... | |
 | Philip Lawrence - 1870 - 422 strani
...whom all glories are ; And glory to our sovereign lord, King Henry of Navarre. THE SONG OF THE SHIKT. 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!" " Work ! work ! work ! While the cock is crowing aloof! And work... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1870 - 538 strani
...England to the movement on behalf of the distressed needle, women. See in Index, DOLOKOUS, SEW, HOOD. I. 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." B. " Work ! work ! work ! While the cock is crowing aloof! And work... | |
 | Philip Lawrence - 1871 - 410 strani
...! 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...pitch — Would that its tone could reach the rich ! — RIENZI'S ADDRESS. < "J7RIENDS : I come not here to talk. Ye know too well _C The story of our... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1871 - 466 strani
...express, Now stamp'd with the image of Gcod Queen Bess, And now of a Bloody Mary. THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. 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." " Work ! work ! work ! While the cock is crowing aloof! And work... | |
 | Ephraim Hunt - 1872 - 658 strani
...hour, A respite, however brief! No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief I A little weeping would ease my heart : But in their briny bed...reach the rich ! She sang this " Song of the Shirt." THE RRIDGE OF SIGHS. ONE more unfortunate, Weary of breath, Rashly importunate, Gone to her death !... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1872 - 472 strani
...! 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...her needle and thread — Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! la poverty, hunger, aud dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, — Would that its tone could... | |
 | 1872 - 900 strani
...my heart ; But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread 1 " 's praise above The sea-nymphs, and their powers offended. Yet thou art rieh l — She sang this " Song of the Shirt ! " THOMAS HOOD. NEW YEAR'S EVE. LITTLE Gretchen, little... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1872 - 438 strani
...their view than it had ever appeared in the most glorious sunshine. THE SONG OF THE SHIRT.—HooD. 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 Shirt1" "Work! work! work! While the cock is crowing aloof I And work —... | |
| |
