...wrote his song of " The Shirt :" With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sate in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread. Stitch!...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 ! Work ! work ! work ! Till...

...my heart, But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread." 11. With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread: CLIX. — CHATHAM ON THE AMERICAN WAR. 1. I CAN NOT, my lords, I will not, join in congratulation on...

...might have been good ground of complaint. There was a little poem of Hood's, that began thus: — •'' With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...dolorous pitch, She sang 'the song of the Shirt.'" The author of these lines has recently been pensioned, and I have no doubt, whenever our " Song of...

...Hood's, that began thus : — " With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman Eat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread. Stitch!...dolorous pitch, She sang 'the song of the Shirt.'" The author of these lines has recently been pensioned, and I have no doubt, whenever our " Song of...

...HOOD. THOMAS HOOD, a distinguished poet and essayist, was born in London in 1798, and died in 1845. 1. WITH fingers weary and worn', With eyelids heavy and...Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty*, hunger', and dirtf ; And still, with a voice of dolorous pitch, She sung the " Song of the Shirt." 2. "WorkM workM...

...— But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread. • " Witli fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red,...dirt — And still with a voice of dolorous pitch — Would that its tone could reach the rich — She sang thin ' Song of the Shirt !'" The bitter experience...

...ease my heart, But in their briny head My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread." With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and...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." THOMAS HOOD. f iw toritttn...

...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...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." Ex. CL.—TKE...

...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 !...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!" LONGFELLOW is the most...

...aud red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch ! stitch! stitch I In poverty, hunger, and dirt And still with a voice...pitch, She sang the " song of the Shirt !" "Work! workl work! While the cock is crowing aloof! And work — work — work ! Till the stars shine through...