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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 reach... "
The "romance" of Peasant Life in the West of England - Page 40
by Francis George Heath - 1872 - 100 pages
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The New Mirror, Volume 2

George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1843 - 530 pages
...for poor suffering humanity than a thousand homilies, or all the arguments of the preem. With fingen weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rugs, Plying her needle and tbread — Stitсh ! stitrh ! stilch '. In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And...
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Reisen in England und Wales, Volume 3

Johann Georg Kohl - 1844 - 316 pages
...@ti(ferinnen bee @r{gebirgea unb an= berer Orte ju Siebe e¿ beffer úberfe^en möge, The Song of the Shirt. With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! la poverty, hunger, and dirt, *)'<Se Cat fid) forbid), wie une bie Rettungen...
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Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, Volumes 1-2

1844 - 878 pages
...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 red, A woman sat in unwomanly racs, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch — rtiteh— otiteh ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt,...
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The Christian lady's magazine, ed. by Charlotte Elizabeth, Volume 21

Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1844 - 622 pages
...ease my heart, Bat in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every 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 — Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger,...
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The Poets and Poetry of England, in the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...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...sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread , Stitch — stitch — stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt ; And still with a voice of dolorous...
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Prose and Verse, Volume 1

Thomas Hood - English literature - 1845 - 434 pages
...And yet, oh yet, that many a Dame Would dream the Lady's Dream ! PART 11. 15 THE SONG OF THE SHIET. 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,...
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Prose and Verse, Volumes 1-2

Thomas Hood - 1845 - 442 pages
...And yet, oh yet, that many a Dame Would dream the Lady's Dream ! PART 11. 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,...
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The Poets and Poetry of England: In the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...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...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...
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The Pioneer: Or, Leaves from an Editor's Portfolio

Henry Clapp - American literature - 1846 - 238 pages
...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...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...
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The Dublin Review, Volume 20

Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1846 - 562 pages
...it no more of exaggeration than what must be found in all such pictures.* THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. " WITH fingers weary and worn, With eye-lids heavy and...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...
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