 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...  Prose and Verse - 210 ページThomas Hood 著 - 1845全文表示 - この書籍について
 | 1863 - 150 ページ
...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...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... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - 1863 - 178 ページ
...admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. THE SONG OF THE SHIRT.— Hood. WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...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... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1863 - 438 ページ
...smaller pieces, such, as " The Song of the Shirt," are stamped with the purest character of poetry.] WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...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... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 390 ページ
...suffering, which was a leading trait in Ilood's nature, and forms an attractive element in his writings.] 1. WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch — stitch — stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still, with a voice of... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1863 - 614 ページ
...— But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread I" 11. Wifli fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red,...woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread ; Stitch — stitch— stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt ; And still with a voice of doTorous... | |
 | Stephen C. Massett - 1863 - 388 ページ
...recitation of the " Song of a Shirt." It was something like this : With fingers weary and worn — (echo) 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 - 1864 - 490 ページ
...But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread ! " With ringers 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... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1864 - 522 ページ
...weakness, Her evil behavior, And leaving, with meekness, Her sins to her Saviour ! THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly raga, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1866 - 568 ページ
...rah-pnk-keena; " And the guests of Hiawatha, Weary with the heat of summer, Slumbered in the sultry wigwam. With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...woman sat, In unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread,— Stitch! stitch I stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still, with a voice of dolorous... | |
 | Frances Martin - 1866 - 506 ページ
...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...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... | |
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