| Rob Pope - 1995 - 236 ページ
...responsihle act and thought As also in hirth and death. A socialist response to the Duchess's mantle? With fingers weary and worn. With eyelids heavy and...the 'Song of the Shirt'. [. . .] 'Work - work work Till the hrain hegins to swim: Work - work - work Till the eyes are heavy and dim! Seam, and gusset,... | |
| Ronald Carter, John McRae - 1997 - 613 ページ
...woman at work: With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A Woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt,...work — work, Till the stars shine through the roof! (The Song of the Shirt) The late Victorian sense of gloom and despondency is well exemplified in the... | |
| Dolores Bausum - 2001 - 268 ページ
...millions of women sewed by hand. Hood rallied the public to take notice of these invisible human beings. With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...of dolorous pitch She sang the "Song of the Shirt." Having drawn this portrait of an exhausted seamstress, Hood addresses the men who heedlessly wear the... | |
| Laurie M. Carlson - 2003 - 36 ページ
...had a stage built in his mansion so he could go back to his first dream — acting! . Excerpt from "The Song of the Shirt" With fingers weary and worn,...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!7' (A popular ditty... | |
| Sarah Morgan Dawson, Francis Warrington Dawson - 2004 - 352 ページ
...slaves" of the "steelfinger." Sarah took the t1tle from Thomas Hood's "The Song of the Shirt" (1843): With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...dolorous pitch, She sang the "Song of the Shirt." Stitch! Stitch! Stitch! April 10, 1873 It is said that the bill to extend the patents for Sewing Machines... | |
| Donna E. Keene, Prufrock Press, Kathy D. Kenne - 2009 - 70 ページ
...(Oh, rare was the revel, and well worth while That made those glowering witch-men smile.) Thomas Hood With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...the "Song of the Shirt." "Work — work — work, Till the brain begins to swim; Work — work — work — Till the eyes are heavy and dim! Seam, and... | |
| 廖七一 - 2006 - 362 ページ
...能至富人耳 九0 八年十月二十五日 柑 原 诗 : THE SONG OF THE SHIRT Thomas Hood (1799@1845) With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...dolorous pitch She sang the "Song of the Shirt!" 'Work! Wi While And workTill th It'sO! to Along Where won If this 一 m fork! Work! ; the cock is crowing... | |
| Wanda Fraiken Neff - 1966 - 298 ページ
...Committee appeared. The Song of the Shirt is the most powerful picture of the slavery of these women. "With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...of dolorous pitch She sang The Song of the Shirt\" Such lines as the following are a poetic representation of the appalling facts citizens were reading... | |
| Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 ページ
...provoked their social consciences. The poem was reprinted in the Times and translated into many languages. The Song of the Shirt With fingers weary and worn,...and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch "Work! work! work! While the cock is crowing aloof! And work — work — work, Till the stars shine... | |
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