The Song of the Shirt by Anna Elizabeth blunden (1854)
BRIDGEMAN ART LIBRARY
AQA (A) Literature: Victorian literature
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 Shirt.”
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