 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...A respite however brief I No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief ! A 1 ittle weeping would ease my heart ; But in their briny bed...Would that its tone could reach the rich ! — She sang this ' ' Song of the Shirt ! " TBE BRIDGE OF SIGHS. ONE more unfortunate, Weary of breath, Rashly... | |
 | George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1843 - 530 pages
...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...tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and tbread ! With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying... | |
 | 1844 - 878 pages
...short hour ! A respite however brief ! No blessed leisure for Love or TTope, But only time for Grief ! A little weeping would ease my heart ; But in their...With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly racs, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch — rtiteh— otiteh ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt,... | |
 | 1844 - 858 pages
...leisure for Love or Поре, liut only time for fïrief ! A little weeping would case my heart ; liut in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop...With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly nure, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch— stitch— stitch I In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1844 - 622 pages
...blessed leisure for Love or Hope, Bat only time for Grief 1 A little weeping would ease my heart, Bat 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,... | |
 | Johann Georg Kohl - Great Britain - 1844 - 316 pages
...blessed leisure for Love or Hope, Bnt only time for Grief! A little weeping would ease my heart, Bat in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop...fingers weary and •worn, With eyelids heavy and red, ale wollten fie mir geigen il; ru fonnigen gebern unb mid) mit bem grueling foppen. *) O nur einmal... | |
 | Johann Georg Kohl - 1844 - 316 pages
...however brief! No blessed leisure for Love or Hope, Bat only time for Grief! A little weeping wonld ease my heart, But in their briny bed My tears must...needle and thread ! **) With fingers weary and worn, t With eyelids heavy and red, alé rcollten fie mir jetgen i$re fonmgen gebem unb mid) mit bem gtubling... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...me. 2r THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. WITR fingera weary and wom, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman eat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread —...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... | |
 | Thomas Hood - English literature - 1845 - 434 pages
...And yet, oh yet, that many a Dame Would dream the Lady's Dream ! PART 11. 15 THE SONG OF THE SHIET. WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and threadStitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt And still with a voice of dolorous pitch,... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1845 - 442 pages
...And yet, oh yet, that many a Dame Would dream the Lady's Dream ! PART 11. 15 THE SONG OF THE SHIRT, WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and threadStitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt And still with a voice of dolorous pitch,... | |
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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... 
