| Eliza Cook - 1850 - 432 halaman
...sometimes falling there ! " and to similar dens where, as now, " With fingers weary and worn, \Vith eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread " All praise to him, too, for that companion piece, "The Bridge of Sighs," where he sees, in one of... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 768 halaman
...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,...Would that its tone could reach the rich ! — She sung this " Song of the Shirt !" THE LADY'S DREAM. The lady lay in her bed, Her couch so warm and soft,... | |
| Charles Mackay - 1851 - 332 halaman
...grow fonder — Isle of Beauty, Fare thee well ! THE SONG OF A SHIRT. THOMAS HOOD, died 1846. WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red,...and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She sang the " Song of a Shirt ! " " Work ! work ! work ! While the cock is crowing aloof ! And work... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 halaman
...'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, With eyelids heavy and red,...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 —... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 halaman
...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 red,...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... | |
| 1843 - 424 halaman
...mournful echo In the hearts of nme who read it, even among us. THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. BY THOMAS HOOD. WITH fingers weary and worn, 'With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rage, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger and dirt, And still... | |
| 1852 - 1080 halaman
...tears shall be wiped from many a mourner's eye, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. WITH ringers weary and worn ? With eyelids heavy and red, A woman...and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She sans the " Sons of the Shirt!" " Work ! work ! work ! While the cock is crowing aloof! And work—work—work,... | |
| Edwin Hubbell Chapin - 1853 - 204 halaman
...the very motion of the needle-woman's toil, and is the most articulate expression of her woe. " With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red,...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 —... | |
| 1853 - 442 halaman
...floating on the slightest breeze bears with it the germs of a noxious weed. 14 ong of tye |[iirt WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red,...and dirt, And still, with a voice of dolorous pitch, She sang the " Song of the Shirt !" " Work !— work ! — work ! While the the cock is crowing aloof... | |
| Anna U. Russell - 1853 - 580 halaman
...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 red,...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! It's oh !... | |
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