 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...  Favorite Authors in Prose and Poetry - Página 177editado por - 1884Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Peter Scheckner - 1989 - 360 páginas
...deafening shouts of congregated thousands." Thomas Hood The Northern Star nd THE SONG OF THE SHIRT With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A Woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her neddle and thread— Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger and dirt, And still with a voice of... | |
 | Ron Burnett - 1991 - 324 páginas
...weary and worn With eyelids heavy and red, Plying her needle and thread— Stitch—Stitch—StitchIn poverty, hunger and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch Would that its tone would reach the rich She sang the Song of the Shirt. The Song of the Shirt, in black and white, runs... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 páginas
...no life is found, (1. 1-4) CH; EBEV; EnRP; NOBE; OBEV; OBNC; PoEL-4; Son The Song of the Shirt \ I So priketh hem nature in hir corages Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages. (1. 7-12) 5 (1. 1—6) 12 It is not linen you're wearing out But human creatures' lives! Stitch — stitch —... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 páginas
...short hour! 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...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... | |
 | 1993 - 412 páginas
...short hour! 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...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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - 1997 - 613 páginas
...for children, wrote as early as 1843 a searing piece against the condition of a poor woman at work: With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A Woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She... | |
 | Renny Christopher, Lisa Orr, Linda J. Strom - 1998 - 276 páginas
...in the first poem are those workers who find labor a form of drudgery: With fingers weary and warn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly...and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She sang the "Song oj the Shirt. " Work — work — work — From weary chime to chime, Work — work... | |
 | Rohan Amanda Maitzen - 1998 - 254 páginas
...poem "The Song of the Shirt," published in Punch in 1843: "With fingers weary and worn," it begins. With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly...and dirt. And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She sang the 'Song of the Shirt.'69 At least two paintings took their titles, and others their inspiration,... | |
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