 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
 | Warren P. Edgarton - 1868 - 522 pages
...Tomnoddy went home to bed l Ex. CXLIX.— 8 ONG OF THE 8 HIS T. THOMAS HOOD WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly...stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still, with n. voice of dolorous pitch, She sang the " Song of the Shirt." "Work! work! work! While the cock is... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - Readers - 1868 - 636 pages
...Her sins to her Saviour ! T. Bood. •*CLXXVH. BONG OF THE SfflRT. YlfTITH. fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly...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... | |
 | George Fitzhugh - History - 1960 - 310 pages
...and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread. Stitch — stitch — stitchl In poverty, hunger, and dirt; And still, with a voice...While the cock is crowing aloof! And work — work — workl Till the stars shine through the roof! It's Ol to be a slave, Along with the barbarous Turk,... | |
 | Peter Scheckner - Chartism - 1989 - 360 pages
...drop 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!' The Penguin Book of Socialist... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 pages
...Without a brain to ponder and craze Or a heart to feel — and break!' — 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 sang this 'Song of the Shirt!' The Bridge of Sighs... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...CH; EBEV; EnRP; NOBE; OBEV; OBNC; PoEL-4; Son The Song of the Shirt \ I With fingers weary and worn, corages Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages. (1. 7-12) 5 (1. 1—6) 12 It is not linen you're wearing out But human creatures' lives! Stitch — stitch —... | |
 | American poetry - 1993 - 412 pages
...a heart to feel @ and break!] 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!" - 手指又酸又痛 眼皮又紅又重;... | |
 | Charles Hamm - Music - 1995 - 408 pages
...Wife," and their own setting of Thomas Hood's "The Song of the Shirt": With fingers weary and worn, With eye-lids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly...She sang the song of the shirt. Work, work, work, 'Till the brain begins to swim; Work, work, work, 'Till the eyes are heavy and dim . . . Oh, men with... | |
 | Rob Pope - Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) - 1995 - 236 pages
...also in hirth and death. A socialist response to the Duchess's mantle? With fingers weary and worn. With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly...the 'Song of the Shirt'. [. . .] 'Work - work work Till the hrain hegins to swim: Work - work - work Till the eyes are heavy and dim! Seam, and gusset,... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - English language - 1997 - 613 pages
...woman at work: With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A Woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt,...work — work, Till the stars shine through the roof! (The Song of the Shirt) The late Victorian sense of gloom and despondency is well exemplified in the... | |
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