 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...  Voices of the True-hearted - Page 2491846 - 288 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Eliza Cook - 1850 - 432 pages
...sometimes falling there ! " and to similar dens where, as now, " With fingers weary and worn, \Vith eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread " All praise to him, too, for that companion piece, "The Bridge of Sighs," where he sees, in one of... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 768 pages
...farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy. THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly...work ! Till the stars shine through the roof! It's oh ! to be a slave " Work — work — work ! Till the brain begins to swim ; Work — work— work... | |
 | Charles Mackay - Ballads, English - 1851 - 332 pages
...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 in unwomanly...and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch — Would that its tone could reach the Hich ! She sang this " Song of the Shirt ! " DEAR IS MY LITTLE... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 780 pages
...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, in unwomanly...and dirt ; And still with a voice of dolorous pitch — Would that its tone could reach the rich ! — She sung this " Song of the Shirt !" THE LADY'S... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...Hinders needle and thread !" With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sate in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread !...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 !" HOOD. IV. THE LAY OF... | |
 | 1843 - 424 pages
...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 in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle aud thread — Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous... | |
 | Baptists - 1852 - 1080 pages
...Hinders needle and thread !" With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sate in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread-—...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!" NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS,... | |
 | Edwin Hubbell Chapin - Cities and towns - 1853 - 204 pages
...needle-woman's toil, and is the most articulate expression of her woe. " With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly...work ! Till the stars shine through the roof ! It's oh ! to be a slave Along with the barbarous Turk, Where woman has never a soul to save, If TIIIS is... | |
 | American literature - 1853 - 442 pages
...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, in unwomanly...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 !" THOMAS HOOD.... | |
 | Anna U. Russell - Elocution - 1853 - 580 pages
...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 in unwomanly...and dirt ; And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, — Would that its tone could reach the rich ! — EXERCISE CLXXVI. FREDERIKA BREMER. Anon. WHAT is... | |
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