 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...  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal - Halaman 471844Tampilan utuh - Tentang buku ini
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 712 halaman
...though not of lands ; And, having nothing, yet hath all. Sir Henry Walton LXXII. TEE SONCf OF THE SHIRT. WITH fingers weary and worn, "With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread — SCttOOL-GIRL'S Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger and... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 416 halaman
...blessed leisure for Love or Hope, But only time for Grief ! A little weeping would ease my heart, But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop...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... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 halaman
...blessed leisure for Love or Hope, But only time for Grief ! A little weeping would ease my heart, But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop...fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, o«<an»'ii tha taati i \ *; *£'• *5 bwili SIB'tw Am desa and blood a« c " Work— work — work... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1869 - 810 halaman
...blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief! A little weeping would ease my heart, — But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread 1" With finger^ weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly ragu, Plving... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1869 - 438 halaman
...blessed leisure for love or hope, . But only time for grief ! A little weeping would ease my heart, But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders the needle and thread ! With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1870 - 538 halaman
...blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief! A little weeping would ease my heart, But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread ! " XIWith fingers weary find worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1870 - 326 halaman
...the Shirt" than that in which the sempstress exclaims — " A little weeping would ease my heart, But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread ;" and the principle embodied in the lines is generally applicable to the poor. To them grief is literally... | |
 | Denys Thompson - 1978 - 252 halaman
...undistinguished poet, wrote The Song of the Shirt (1843), of which the first stanza runs: With fingers wean, 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... | |
 | Peter Scheckner - 1989 - 360 halaman
...blessed leisure for Love or Hope, But only time for Grief! A little weeping would ease my heart, But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop...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,... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 halaman
...blessed leisure for Love or Hope, But only time for Grief! A little weeping would ease my heart, But in their briny bed My tears 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... | |
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