 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...  A Treasure Chest of Memories - Seite 175von Joe Mitchell Chapple - 1911 - 447 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Andrew Comstock, Philip Lawrence - 1808 - 596 Seiten
...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 !" EVELYN HOPE. (ROBERT... | |
 | Warren P. Edgarton - 1868 - 522 Seiten
...be said ; So — my Lord 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...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... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 710 Seiten
...himself, though not of lands ; And, having nothing, yet hath nil. Sir Henry Walton LXXII. THE SONO OF THE SHIRT. WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids...sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread — THE SCHOOL-OinrS Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger and dirt, And still, with a voice... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 712 Seiten
...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...her needle and thread ; Stitch— stitch— stitch 1 In poverty, hunger, and dirt ; And still with a voice of dolorous pitch — Would that its tone could... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - 1868 - 636 Seiten
...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... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 416 Seiten
...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!" DYING CHRISTIAN TO HIS... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 Seiten
...ta nek, and tke braiu b«uuutt1uJ, •ttii-Ja weary baud. tneir sunny back* the spring. breath : 3, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle...and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, — Would that its tone could reach the Eich ! She sang this " Song of the Shirt !'" (By permission... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1869 - 810 Seiten
...gentle as the dove — (I'll tell you what, my love, I cannot write unless he's sent above I) THE SOXil Of THE SHIRT. With fingers 'weary and worn, With eyelids...unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch 1 stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still, with a voice of dolorous pitch, She sang... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1869 - 438 Seiten
...smaller pieces, such as " The Song of the Shirt," are stamped with the purest character of poeiry.] WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...Plying her needle and thread. Stitch ! stitch ! stitch I In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She sang the " Song of the... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - 1870 - 636 Seiten
...behavior, And leaving, with meekness, Her sins to her Saviour l T, CLXxvn. 80 NO OF THE SHIRT. Y\7"ITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red,...sang the " Song of the Shirt" " Work ! work ! work I While the cock is crowing aloof! And work, — work, — work, Till the stars shine through the roof!... | |
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