 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 She sang the  English Prose and Poetry - Page 494by John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 882 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed — she had Another morn than GUI'S. THE 80NQ Of THE SHIRT. WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids...of dolorous pitch She sang the " Song of the Shirt! " "Work! work! work! While the cock is crowing aloof 1 And work — work — work, Till the stars shine... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1844 - 622 pages
...futurity, where the tears shall be wiped from many a mourner's eye, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...of dolorous pitch She sang the " Song of the Shirt I" " Work 1 work ! work ! While the cock is crowing aloof! And work — work — work, Till the stars... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1846 - 562 pages
...Poems. [June. that there is in it no more of exaggeration than what must be found in all such pictures.* THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. " WITH fingers weary and worn,...of dolorous pitch She sang the "Song of the Shirt!" " Work ! work ! work ! While the cock is crowing aloof ! And work — work — work, Till the stars... | |
 | Henry Clapp - 1846 - 228 pages
...triumphs. Yours, for Free Meeting and the Spontaneous Press, THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. BY THOMAS HOOD. With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...dolorous pitch, She sang " the Song of the Shirt! " "Work! work! work! While the cock is crowing aloof! And work—work—work! Till the stars shine... | |
 | 1846 - 302 pages
...'Twill be like hearing in a foreign clime ENGLISH DESTITUTION. THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. BY THOMAS HOOD. With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...of dolorous pitch She sang the . Song of the Shirt !' " Work ! work ! work ! While the cock is crowing aloof ! And work— work — work, Till the stars... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pages
...low degree, But I must weep that partial fate Made such a churl of me. SF THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. WITR fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red,...of dolorous pitch, She sang the " Song of the Shirt !" " Work ! work ! work ! While the cock is crowing aloof! And work — work — work, Till the stars... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 pages
...childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy. THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. With fingers weary and worn,...of dolorous pitch, She sang the " Song of the Shirt !" "Work! work! work! While the cock is crowing aloof! And work — work — work ! Till the stars... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...large discourse, that looks before and after.' He ceases to be a man, and becomes a thing." — Parker. WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...of dolorous pitch She sang the " Song of the Shirt !" " Work ! work ! work ! While the cock is crowing aloof ! And work ! work ! work ! Till the stars... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1851 - 350 pages
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 | Anna U. Russell - 1853 - 580 pages
...one weightier theme, — oh ! need I mention DINNER T EXERCISE CLXXV. THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. Hood. WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...of dolorous pitch, She sang the " Song of the Shirt ! " "Work! work! work! While the cock is crowing aloof! It's oh ! to be a slave Along with the barbarous... | |
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