 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...  Voices of the True-hearted - 第 250 頁1846 - 288 頁完整檢視 - 關於此書
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...costs a meal! " Oh but for one 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. Bat in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread !" With fingers... | |
 | Elizabeth Nicholson - 1853 - 412 頁
...breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet, With the sky above my head, And the grass beneath my feet, For only one short hour, To feel as I used to feel,...With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly raga, Plying her needle and thread ! Stitch ! — stitch ! — stitch ! In poverty, hunger and dirt,... | |
 | 1853 - 560 頁
...and thread." 190 LINES WRITTEN IN A HIGHLAND GLEN. With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heary and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch— stiloh— stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, Would that... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 頁
...costs a meal! " Oh ! but for one 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 iu their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread!" With fingers weary... | |
 | 1853 - 790 頁
...fragments of eome of the darker trap rocks or dark porphyries. WAGES OF THE SHIRT SEWERS Ш NEW YORK. u With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman eat, in unwomanly rage, Plying her needle and thread. Stitch— etilch— stitch ! In poverty, hunger,... | |
 | Margaret Maria Gordon - 1854 - 270 頁
...— a broken chair— And a wall so blank, my shadow I thank, For sometimes falling there." " 0 ! hut for one short hour ! A respite however brief ! No...must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread !" HOOD. It is said by the Political Economist, that " the lowest point to which wages can be permanently... | |
 | 1854 - 212 頁
...of poverty, deep shades of human misery, such as called forth the harrowing lines of Hood,— " 0 ! but for one short hour ! A respite however brief!...briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders my needle and thread." True it is, however, that the want of a comfortable home has caused many such... | |
 | Margaret Maria Gordon - 1854 - 280 頁
...— a broken chair — And a wall so blank, my shadow I thank, For sometimes falling there." " 0 ! but for one short hour ! A respite however brief !...their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hiuders needle and thread i" HOOD. It is said by the Political Economist, that " the lowest point to... | |
 | Stephen SHIRLEY - 1855 - 210 頁
...costs a meal. Oh ! but for one short hour, A respite, however brief, No blessed leisure for love nor hope, But only time for grief. A little weeping would...heart, But in their briny bed, My tears must stop for ev'ry drop Hinders needle and thread. With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman... | |
 | SOLON ROBINSON - 1854 - 436 頁
...YORK. 135 CHAPTER VIII. ATHALIA, THE SEWING GIRL. " How full of briars la this working day world." " With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread." ATHALIA wore not unwomanly rags at the period when I shall commence her history. She was clad in the... | |
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