 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 She sang the "Song of the...  Chambers's graduated readers - Trang 173bởi Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1885Xem Toàn bộ - Giới thiệu về cuốn sách này
 | Peter Scheckner - 1989 - 360 trang
...ease my 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, A Woman sate in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread— Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger,... | |
 | Ron Burnett - 1991 - 324 trang
...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... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 trang
...the Thames in London. It was a toll-free bridge often used by suicides. The Song of the Shirt \Vith 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— work... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 trang
...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 —... | |
 | 1993 - 412 trang
...道地地的鐵木機器， 為財神鞠躬又盡痺。 沒有頭惱去冥思遙想， Or a heart to feel @ and break!] With fingers 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,... | |
 | Rob Pope - 1995 - 236 trang
...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 trang
...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 trang
...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 trang
...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 trang
...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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