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... The Wheat-sheaf - Página 1461857 - 416 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| 1846 - 332 páginas
...the Spring. ' Oh, but for one short hour ! A respite however brief! No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief! A little weeping would...their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Would hinder the needle and thread.' Monday Morning. On Sunday, nobody stirred in the house till very... | |
| 1846 - 556 páginas
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| Thomas Hood - 1846 - 672 páginas
...And yet, oh yet, that many a Dame Would dream the Lady's Dream ! I'ART ii. 15 THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and threadStitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt And still with a voice of dolorous pitch,... | |
| 1848 - 592 páginas
...as a shirt. " ' 0 but for one short hour, A respite, however brief, No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief. A little weeping would ease my breast, Rut in their briny bed My tears must stop, lor every drop Hinders needle and thread.' " Never,... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1849 - 424 páginas
...costs a meal! " Oh ! but for one short hour! A respite, however brief! No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief! A little weeping would...sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread ; Stitch—stitch—stitch! In poverty, hunger and dirt; And still with a voice of dolorous pitchWould... | |
| Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 páginas
...but all was o'er — Dead silence reign'd around — The clock struck four! THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...stitch — stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, COATES. " Work — work — work ! While the cock is crowing aloof! And work — work — work ! Till... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1849 - 430 páginas
...costs a meal ! " Oh ! but for one short hour ! A respite, however brief! No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief! A little weeping would ease my heartBut in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread !" With fingers... | |
| Eliza Cook - 1850 - 432 páginas
...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... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 páginas
...costs a meal ! " Oh, but for one short hour ! A respite, however brief ! No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief ! A little weeping would...weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sate in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread ! Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger,... | |
| Charles Mackay - 1851 - 350 páginas
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