 | Robert Burns - 1870 - 652 pages
...OPPRESSED with grief, oppressed with care, A burden more than I can bear, I sit me down and sigh : 0 life ! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I ! Dim backward as I cast my view, What sickening scenes appear ! What sorrows yet may pierce... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1870 - 352 pages
...PPRESS'D with grief,oppress'd with care, A burden more than I can bear, I sit me down and sigh : 0 life ! thou art a galling load Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I ! Dim backward as I cast my view, What sick'ning scenes appear ! What sorrows yet may pierce... | |
 | Robert Dale Owen - 1870 - 284 pages
...out sometimes in the gloom — as poor Burns did when the burden was more than he could bear — 6'O life ! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as II'" Celia started. The very words that had been haunting her ever since that terrible scene... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1871 - 516 pages
...OPPEESS'D with grief, oppress'd with care, A burden more than I can bear, I set me down and sigh : O Life ! Thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as_U, Dim-backward as I cast my view, What sick'ning Scenes appear ! What Sorrows yet may pierce... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 pages
...scorning, We frisk away, Like school-boys at th' expected warning, To joy and play. Epistle to James Smith. O life ! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I ! Despondency. Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min' ? Should auld... | |
 | Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - 1874 - 368 pages
...wish for is to be relieved of its intolerable load ? Poor Burns was perfectly sincere, when he wrote, O life, thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I. And Sophocles meant it, when he wrote the famous chorus in the CEdipus Coloneus, of which... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pages
...ADDISON. Oppress'd with grief, oppress'd with care, A burden more than I can bear; I sit me down and sigh. O life ! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I. them; There is no darkness like the cloud of mind On grief's vain eye — the blindest of... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pages
...scorning, We frisk away, Like school-boys at th' expected warning, To joy and play. Epistle to James Smith. O life ! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I ! Despondency. Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min" ? Should auld... | |
 | Peter Freeland Aiken - 1876 - 468 pages
...OPPRESS'D with grief, oppress' d with care, A burden more than I can bear, I sit me down and sigh : O life ! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I ! Dim backward as I cast my view, What sick'ning scenes appear ! What sorrows yet may pierce... | |
 | P. F. Aiken - 1876 - 454 pages
...OPPRESS'IJ with grief, oppress'd with care, A burden more than I can bear, I sit me down and sigh : O life ! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I ! Dim backward as I cast my view, What sick'ning scenes appear ! What sorrows yet may pierce... | |
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Too justly I may fear! Still caring, despairing, Must be my bitter doom; My woes here shall close ne'er But with the closing tomb! 
