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... The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song - Página 282de Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 882 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
| 1872 - 514 páginas
...which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. SONG- OF THE SHIRT.— THOMAS HOOD. 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! SONG OF THE... | |
| Robert Bell - 1872 - 420 páginas
...that ye be sent to greet us At the gates of Heaven! THOMAS HOOD. 1798—1845. 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 —... | |
| James Ridgway - 1873 - 182 páginas
...short hour To feel, as I used to feel Before I knew the woes of want, And the walk that costs a meal !" With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...reach the rich ! She sang this " Song of the Shirt !" TJwmas Hood. LV— THE JUDGMENT OF SANCHO. in-con-ve-ni-ence de-fend-ant cred-it-or plain-tiff per-ceiv-ing... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 906 páginas
...the chilly bed where he was laid, 1 cried, and was afraid. ROBERT BUCHANAN. THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. rn, Like red poppies grown with corn. Round her eyes...bright. And her hat, with shady brim, Made her tre She sang the " Song of the Shirt ! " "Work! work! work! While the cock is crowing aloof ! And work... | |
| Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1873 - 408 páginas
...storms in the different oceans. In what way are these storms often beneficial? 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... | |
| Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 782 páginas
...meekness, Her sins to her Saviour ! Thomas Hood. — Bom 1798, Died 1845. 1496.— THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. two days' time, with haggard eyes and beard, And shaken...each with a sword, And went with the voit man. They She sang the " Song of the Shirt ! " " Work ! work ! work ! While the cock is crowing aloof ! And work... | |
| Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 páginas
...paws, and then they '11 haul out honey, bees,and all." XCVIL— THE SONG OF THE SHIET. THOMAS HOOD. 1. 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 !" 2. "Work! work! work! While the cock is crowing aloof! And work... | |
| Andrew Comstock - 1874 - 286 páginas
...charge ! On, Stanley, on ! " Were the last words of Marmion. THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. (THOMAS HOOD.) 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... | |
| Noble Butler - 1874 - 342 páginas
...surf-flooded deck Stands the father so brave, Driving on to his grave Through the night t—Stoddard. 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!"— Hood. O ! breathe not his name ! let it sleep in the shade Where... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 392 páginas
...— 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...reach the rich ! — She sang this "Song of the Shirt !" MORNING MEDITATIONS. LET Taylor preach, upon a morning breezy, How well to rise while nights and... | |
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