 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1857 - 456 páginas
...short hour! A trespite, however brief 1 No blessed leisure for Love or 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." 11. With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying... | |
 | Joseph Howe - 1858 - 664 páginas
...might have been good ground of complaint. There was a little poem of Hood's, that began thus: — •'' With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...dirt, And still, with a, voice of dolorous pitch, She sang 'the song of the Shirt.'" The author of these lines has recently been pensioned, and I have... | |
 | Joseph Howe - 1858 - 668 páginas
...Hood's, that began thus : — " With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman Eat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread. Stitch!...and dirt, And still, with a voice of dolorous pitch, She sang 'the song of the Shirt.'" The author of these lines has recently been pensioned, and I have... | |
 | Lucius Osgood - 1858 - 494 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...must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread !" 11. With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying... | |
 | Solon Robinson - 1858 - 434 páginas
...over. Read. CHAPTER VIIL ATHALIA, THE SEWING GIRL. " How full of briars i> this working day world." ** With fingers weary and worn. With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat In unwomanly rags, Flying her needle and thread." ATIIALIA wore not unwomanly rags at the period when I shall commence... | |
 | Plague Spot - 1859 - 632 páginas
...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...must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread. • " Witli fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying... | |
 | Metta Victoria Fuller Victor - 1859 - 314 páginas
...for one short year To be some good man's wife, Even if I were left a widow All the rest of my life. A little weeping would ease my heart, But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Is fatal to " carmine red." With a heart that was tired to death Of being so old a maid, A milliner... | |
 | 1864 - 206 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 briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinder* needle and thread." Scarcely less beautiful is the " Bridge of Sighs," in which, as in the... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1860 - 450 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...With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly raga, Plying her needle and thread ; Stitch — stitch — stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt ;... | |
 | England - 1860 - 532 páginas
...soul Yearns after all the joys of social life, And softens with the love of human kind. CHARLES LAMa. 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... | |
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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... 
