 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 "Song of the...  Chambers's graduated readers - עמוד 173מאת Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1885תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | Lucius Osgood - 1858 - 494 דפים
...HOOD. THOMAS HOOD, a distinguished poet and essayist, was born in London in 1798, and died in 1845. 1. WITH fingers weary and worn', With eyelids heavy and...Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty*, hunger', and dirtf ; And still, with a voice of dolorous pitch, She sung the " Song of the Shirt." 2. "WorkM workM... | |
 | Solon Robinson - 1858 - 434 דפים
...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... | |
 | Joseph Howe - 1858 - 668 דפים
...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 red, A woman Eat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread. Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger and... | |
 | Plague Spot - 1859 - 632 דפים
...gifted author, — the simple eulogy inscribed upon whose tomb is, "HE SANG 'THE SONG OF THE SHERT.'" " 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... | |
 | England - 1860 - 532 דפים
...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... | |
 | Warren P. Edgarton - 1860 - 530 דפים
...be said ; So — my Lord Tomnoddy went home to bed ! Ex. CXLIX.— SONG OF THE SHIRT. THOMAS HOOD. 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." " Work ! work ! work ! While the cock is crowing aloof! And work... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1860 - 450 דפים
...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 red, A woman sat, in unwomanly raga, Plying her needle and thread ; Stitch — stitch — stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt ;... | |
 | Advanced reading book - 1860 - 458 דפים
...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 red, A woman sate in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread ! Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger,... | |
 | Richard Newton - 1861 - 290 דפים
...it. It was called " The Song of the Shirt." It described a poor woman at her work in this way, — " 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 brain begins to swim ; Work —... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1861 - 394 דפים
...weakness, Her evil behaviour, 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 I" " Work ! work ! work ! While the cock is crowing aloof! And work... | |
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