 | George Fitzhugh - 1960 - 310 páginas
...narrative, no statistics of ours, could be more true nor half so much to the purpose. THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...rags, Plying her needle and thread. Stitch — stitch — stitchl In poverty, hunger, and dirt; And still, with a voice of dolorous pitch, She sang the "Song... | |
 | Peter Scheckner - 1989 - 360 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...weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A Woman sate in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread— Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger,... | |
 | Ron Burnett - 1991 - 324 páginas
...weary and worn With eyelids heavy and red, Plying her needle and thread— Stitch—Stitch—StitchIn poverty, hunger and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch Would that its tone would reach the rich She sang the Song of the Shirt. The Song of the Shirt, in black and white, runs... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 páginas
...no life is found, (1. 1-4) CH; EBEV; EnRP; NOBE; OBEV; OBNC; PoEL-4; Son The Song of the Shirt \ I So priketh hem nature in hir corages Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages. (1. 7-12) 5 (1. 1—6) 12 It is not linen you're wearing out But human creatures' lives! Stitch — stitch —... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 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! 'Seam, and gusset, and band, Band, and gusset, and seam, Work, work, work, Like the Engine that works... | |
 | 1993 - 412 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!" [Seam, and gusset, and band, Band, and gusset, and seam, Work, work, work, Like the Engine that works... | |
 | Charles Hamm - 1995 - 410 páginas
...Henry Russell's "The Gambler's Wife," and their own setting of Thomas Hood's "The Song of the Shirt": With fingers weary and worn, With eye-lids heavy and...and dirt. And still with a voice of dolorous pitch. She sang the song of the shirt. Work, work, work, 'Till the brain begins to swim; Work, work, work,... | |
 | Rob Pope - 1995 - 236 páginas
...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...and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She sang the 'Song of the Shirt'. [. . .] 'Work - work work Till the hrain hegins to swim: Work - work... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - 1997 - 613 páginas
...for children, wrote as early as 1843 a searing piece against the condition of a poor 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, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She... | |
 | Renny Christopher, Lisa Orr, Linda J. Strom - 1998 - 276 páginas
...in the first poem are those workers who find labor a form of drudgery: With fingers weary and warn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly...and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She sang the "Song oj the Shirt. " Work — work — work — From weary chime to chime, Work — 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... 
