 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
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Roger Rosenblatt - 2006 - 248 páginas
...living circumstances of factory workers and aroused the public's sympathy, as well as Hood's. He wrote: With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...reach the Rich! — She sang this "Song of the Shirt!" (Thomas Hood, "The Song of the Shirt") Today that woman is Mexican or Chinese, but the basic circumstance... | |
 | Dolores Bausum - 2001 - 268 páginas
...millions of women sewed by hand. Hood rallied the public to take notice of these invisible human beings. 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." Having drawn this portrait of an exhausted seamstress, Hood addresses... | |
 | Laurie M. Carlson - 2003 - 36 páginas
...his mansion so he could go back to his first dream — acting! . Excerpt from "The Song of the Shirt" With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...could reach the rich! — She sang this "Song of the Shirt!7' (A popular ditty of the early 1800s written by Thomas Hood that tells of the hardships of... | |
 | Sarah Morgan Dawson, Francis Warrington Dawson - 2004 - 352 páginas
...slaves" of the "steelfinger." Sarah took the t1tle from Thomas Hood's "The Song of the Shirt" (1843): 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." Stitch! Stitch! Stitch! April 10, 1873 It is said that the bill to... | |
 | Donna E. Keene, Prufrock Press, Kathy D. Kenne - 2009 - 70 páginas
...(Oh, rare was the revel, and well worth while That made those glowering witch-men smile.) 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, Till the brain begins to swim; Work —... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 páginas
...consciences. The poem was reprinted in the Times and translated into many languages. The Song of the Shirt With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch "Work! work! work! While the cock is crowing aloof! And work — work — work, Till the stars shine... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1860 - 332 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 ! " DEAR IS MY LITTLE NATIVE VALE. SAMUEL EOOEES. DEAR is my little native vale, The ring-dove builds... | |
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