 | Edwin Hubbell Chapin - 1853 - 204 páginas
...to the very motion of the needle-woman's toil, and is the most articulate expression of her woe. " With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She sang the song of the shirt. Work ! work ! work ! While the cock is crowing aloof. And work —... | |
 | 1853 - 102 páginas
...their brinv bed My tears must stop, lor every drop Hinders needle unJ thread." " With fingers wcnry and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat...In poverty hunger and dirt, And still with a voice ol dolorous pitch. Would that its tuns could reach the iicft* She sang this "Sony of the Shirt!" THE... | |
 | 1853 - 560 páginas
...of human kind. CHASLES LAi THOMAS HOOD. 187 0f % WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy aud red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle...and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She sang the " Song of the Shirt." " Work — work — work ! While the cock is crowing aloof: And... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 páginas
...leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief ! A little weeping would ease my heart — But iu their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop...thread!" With fingers weary and worn. With eyelids heavy und red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her neodle and thread; Stitch — stitch — stitch... | |
 | 1853 - 788 páginas
...THE SHIRT SEWERS Ш NEW YORK. "With fingen weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman eat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread. Stitch—...! In poverty, hunger, and dirt ; And still with a volco of doterons pitch She sang the ' SOUK of the Shirt !' " aoofi " Sang of the Skirt" We agree with... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1854 - 428 páginas
...short hour ! A respite, however brief! No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief! A little weeping would ease my heart— But in their...reach the rich !— » She sung this " Song of the shirt !" VALUABLE BOOKS PUBLISHED BY KIGGINS & KELLOGG, New fforlfct ROODS CHOICE WORKS, with <*»»*... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1854 - 424 páginas
...her rest. — Cross her hands humbly As if praying dumbly, Over her breast ! THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She sang the " Song of the Shirt ! " " Work ! work ! work ! While the cock is crowing aloof ! And work... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1854 - 536 páginas
...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...and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She sang the " Song of the Shirt ! " " Work ! work ! work ! While the cock is crowing aloof! And work... | |
 | Margaret Maria Gordon - 1854 - 270 páginas
...short hour ! A respite however brief ! No blessed leisure for love and hope, But only time for grief ! A little weeping would ease my heart, But in their...must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread !" HOOD. It is said by the Political Economist, that " the lowest point to which wages can be permanently... | |
 | Solon Robinson - 1854 - 436 páginas
...over. Head. CHAPTER VIII. ATHALIA, THE SEWING GIRL. " How fall of briars is this working day world." " With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread." ATHALIA wore not unwomanly rags at the period when I shall commence her history. She was clad in the... | |
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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... 
