Le poème, bien connu des écoliers anglais, est de Thomas Hood, qui le publia dans Punch en 1843 en l'honneur de Mrs Biddell, veuve du quartier de Lambeth et couturière à domicile.
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"...
..."Work--work--work
Till the brain begins to swim;
Work--work--work
Till the eyes are heavy and dim!
Seam, and gusset, and band,
Band, and gusset, and seam,
Till over the buttons I fall asleep,
And sew them on in a dream!
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