 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1844 - 622 pages
...short hour ! A respite however brief! No blessed leisure for Love or Hope, Bat only time for Grief 1 A little weeping would ease my heart, Bat in their...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,... | |
 | 1844 - 878 pages
...blessed leisure for Love or TTope, But only time for Grief ! A little weeping would ease my heart ; But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop...fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly racs, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch — rtiteh— otiteh ! In poverty,... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1845 - 442 pages
...blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief! A little weeping would ease my heart — But in their briny bed . My tears must stop, for every...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,... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1845 - 434 pages
...blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief! A little weeping would ease my heart — But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop...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,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pages
...blessed leisure for love or hope ; But only time for grief! A little weeping would ease my heart — But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop...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,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pages
...blessed leisure for love or hope ; But only time for grief! A little weeping would ease my heart — But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop...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,... | |
 | 1846 - 308 pages
...blessed leisure for Love and Hope, But only time for Grief; A little weeping would ease my heart, But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop...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,... | |
 | Henry Clapp - 1846 - 238 pages
...blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief! A little weeping would ease my heart — But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop...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,... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1846 - 672 pages
...blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief! A little weeping would ease my heart — But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop...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,... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1849 - 430 pages
...blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief! A little weeping would ease my heartBut in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop...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,... | |
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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 in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread!" With fingers... 
