 | 1846 - 302 страници
...costs a meal ! " Oh but for one short hour ! A respite however brief ! No blessed leisure for Love and 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 pitch,... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1846 - 562 страници
...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... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1846 - 672 страници
...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,... | |
 | 1846 - 308 страници
...foreign clime ENGLISH DESTITUTION. THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. BY THOMAS HOOD. With fingers weary and woni, 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... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1849 - 424 страници
...backs, And twit me with the Spring. " Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet j With the sky above my head, And the grass beneath...hunger and dirt; And still with a voice of dolorous pitchWould that its tone could reach the rich She sung this " Song of the shirt!" ... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 страници
...beneath my feet; For only one short hour, To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want, Oh but for one short hour! A respite however brief!...sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch — stitch — stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1849 - 430 страници
...so extreme ; And yet, oh yet, that many a Dame Would dream the Lady's Dream ! 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,... | |
 | 1850 - 98 страници
...! we are saved !' THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. Poetry by the late Thomas Hood.— Music by Henry BuMell. 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,... | |
 | Eliza Cook - 1850 - 432 страници
...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... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1851 - 332 страници
...as the weary hand. " Work — work — work, In the dull December light, And work — work — work, When the weather is warm and bright — While underneath...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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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... 
