Indexed in the public record
“My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Song of the Shirt.
- Type:
- song
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d57917a1a5da2b99e9303be3bb9b1ca568e5c1b5c83b4ae94825c2a046d15b44
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Related in the record
“It will grieve me so to the heart, that I shall cry my eyes out.”
Miguel de Cervantes
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Words that weep and tears that speak.”
Abraham Cowley
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Let not women's weapons, water-drops, Stain my man's cheeks!”
William Shakespeare
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day.”
John Milton
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Hide me from day's garish eye.”
John Milton
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids.”
Unattributed
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Said something yourself? Put it on the record — $5.
A timestamped public registration for your own line — before someone else claims it.
This is an indexed reference citation, not a legal registry entry and not a claim of ownership.