 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 She sang the  English Prose and Poetry - Pagina 494door John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 882 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pagina’s
...And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed — she had Another morn than GUI'S. THE 80NQ Of THE SHIRT. WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids...of dolorous pitch She sang the " Song of the Shirt! " "Work! work! work! While the cock is crowing aloof 1 And work — work — work, Till the stars shine... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1844 - 622 pagina’s
...futurity, where the tears shall be wiped from many a mourner's eye, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...of dolorous pitch She sang the " Song of the Shirt I" " Work 1 work ! work ! While the cock is crowing aloof! And work — work — work, Till the stars... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1846 - 562 pagina’s
...Poems. [June. that there is in it no more of exaggeration than what must be found in all such pictures.* THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. " WITH fingers weary and worn,...of dolorous pitch She sang the "Song of the Shirt!" " Work ! work ! work ! While the cock is crowing aloof ! And work — work — work, Till the stars... | |
 | Henry Clapp - 1846 - 228 pagina’s
...triumphs. Yours, for Free Meeting and the Spontaneous Press, THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. BY THOMAS HOOD. With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...dolorous pitch, She sang " the Song of the Shirt! " "Work! work! work! While the cock is crowing aloof! And work—work—work! Till the stars shine... | |
 | 1846 - 302 pagina’s
...'Twill be like hearing in a foreign clime ENGLISH DESTITUTION. THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. BY THOMAS HOOD. With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...of dolorous pitch She sang the . Song of the Shirt !' " Work ! work ! work ! While the cock is crowing aloof ! And work— work — work, Till the stars... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pagina’s
...low degree, But I must weep that partial fate Made such a churl of me. SF THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. WITR fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red,...of dolorous pitch, She sang the " Song of the Shirt !" " Work ! work ! work ! While the cock is crowing aloof! And work — work — work, Till the stars... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 pagina’s
...childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy. THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. With fingers weary and worn,...of dolorous pitch, She sang the " Song of the Shirt !" "Work! work! work! While the cock is crowing aloof! And work — work — work ! Till the stars... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pagina’s
...large discourse, that looks before and after.' He ceases to be a man, and becomes a thing." — Parker. WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...of dolorous pitch She sang the " Song of the Shirt !" " Work ! work ! work ! While the cock is crowing aloof ! And work ! work ! work ! Till the stars... | |
 | Anna U. Russell - 1853 - 580 pagina’s
...one weightier theme, — oh ! need I mention DINNER T EXERCISE CLXXV. THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. Hood. WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...of dolorous pitch, She sang the " Song of the Shirt ! " "Work! work! work! While the cock is crowing aloof! It's oh ! to be a slave Along with the barbarous... | |
 | 1853 - 442 pagina’s
...tuft floating on the slightest breeze bears with it the germs of a noxious weed. 14 ong of tye |[iirt WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...of dolorous pitch, She sang the " Song of the Shirt !" " Work !— work ! — work ! While the the cock is crowing aloof ! And work — work — work,... | |
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