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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... "
Improvement Era - Page 19
1901
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The New Mirror, Volume 2

George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1843 - 530 pages
...Plying her needle and tbread — Stitсh ! stitrh ! stilch '. In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And s Iili with a voice of dolorous pitch, She sang the " Song of the Shirt ?" " Work ! work ! work ! While the cock is crowing aloof! And work — work — work. Till the etnrs...
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th. Oxford, Salisbury, Stonehenge, Eton-College, Windsor-Castle, Winchester ...

Johann Georg Kohl - 1844 - 316 pages
...unb 3ģirn ! A Woman sate in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread. Stitch! stitch! stitch! ID poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, Would that its tone could reach the Rich ! She sang this „Song of the Shirt!" *) *) SOTit Ringern...
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Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, Volumes 1-2

1844 - 878 pages
...red, A woman sat in unwomanly racs, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch — rtiteh— otiteh ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, Would that its tone eould reach the llich Sue song this ' Song of the Shirt I" GRATIFYING FACTS RESPECTING...
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The Christian lady's magazine, ed. by Charlotte Elizabeth, Volume 21

Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1844 - 622 pages
...red, A woman sate 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 Rich She sang this " Song of the Shirt! " THE CHRISTIAN LADY'S...
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Prose and Verse, Volumes 1-2

Thomas Hood - 1845 - 442 pages
...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 rich !She sung this " Song of the shirt !" Glimpses of the...
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The Poets and Poetry of England, in the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pages
...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 rich !— She sang this - Song of the Shirt !" SILENCE. is...
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Prose and Verse, Volume 1

Thomas Hood - 1845 - 434 pages
...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 rich !She sung this " Song of the shirt !" NEW AND VALUABLE...
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Voices of the True-hearted

1846 - 308 pages
...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 She sang the ' Song of the Shirt !' " Work ! work ! work ! While the cock is crowing aloof ! And work— work— work, Till the stars...
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The Pioneer: Or, Leaves from an Editor's Portfolio

Henry Clapp - 1846 - 228 pages
...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, She sang " the Song of the Shirt! " "Work! work! work! While the cock is crowing aloof! And work—work—work! Till the stars shine...
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Poems, Volume 2

Thomas Hood - 1846 - 672 pages
...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 rich !— She sung this " Song of the shirt !" ...
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