 | Stephen C. Massett - 1863 - 388 sidor
...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... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1863 - 438 sidor
...heart, But in their briny bed - i, My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders the needle and thread ! With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread. Stitch I stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, Would that... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1863 - 614 sidor
...successfully the cause of humanity and religion. 15. THE SONG OF THE SHIST. WITH fingers weary and worn, Wifti eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags,...Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dill,1 And still, with a voice of doi'orous* pitch, She sang the " Song of the Shirt!"1 2. "Work!1... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - 1863 - 178 sidor
...ease my heart, But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread 1 " With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread — In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, Would that its tone could... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1864 - 490 sidor
...But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread ! " With ringers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman...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 ! " 11* THE... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1864 - 522 sidor
...weakness, Her evil behavior, And leaving, with meekness, Her sins to her Saviour ! THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly raga, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still... | |
 | Frances Martin - 1866 - 506 sidor
...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 ! ' T. Hood. XL LESSONS... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 sidor
...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 !— THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS. " Drowned ! drowned !" — HAMLET.... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1866 - 568 sidor
...rah-pnk-keena; " And the guests of Hiawatha, Weary with the heat of summer, Slumbered in the sultry wigwam. With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...rags, Plying her needle and thread,— Stitch! stitch I stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still, with a voice of dolorous plica, She sang the "... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 sidor
...my heart; But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread I" 11. 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 !" XC VIII. —THE... | |
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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... 
