 | Robert Burns - 1876 - 540 pages
...Muse."] OPPRESS'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 I! Dim-backward as I cast my view, What sick'ning Scenes appear! What Sorrows yet may pierce... | |
 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - 1876 - 626 pages
...OPPRESS' D with grief, oppress' d with care, A burden more than I can bear, I set 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 Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...OTOESS'D with grief, oppress'd with care, A burden more than I can bear ; I sit me down- and sigh. О >"0 such as I. — Burns. 1627. GRIEF. Avarice in WE know There oft is found an avarice in grief, And the... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 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... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1878 - 550 pages
...OPPRESSED with grief, oppressed 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, 102 103 What sickening scenes appear ! What sorrows yet may pierce me through, Too justly I may fear... | |
 | Allan Cunningham, Charles Mackay - 1879 - 628 pages
...OPPRESS'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 I ! Dim-backward as I cast my view, What sick'ning scenes appear ! What sorrows yet may pierce... | |
 | Monday Club (Boston). - 1879 - 458 pages
...what he sought, he finds his prize worthless. The poet Burns bitterly exclaims, — " O life, them art a galling load Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I." These poets are the prophets of human nature ; they voice the convictions of mankind ;... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman - 1880 - 1104 pages
...Oppress'cl 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 ' * Dedication of his Poems to the Earl of Glencairn. 342 THE NATIONAL QUARTERLY REVIEW.... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pages
...cluster ; rare are solitary woes ; They luve, a train, they tread each other's heel. DR. Ii. YOUNG. О ^ `C$2 such as I ! DtspcndtHCJ. BURNS, A man 1 am, crossed with adversity. Tva GtttlbmtH 9/ Увгонл,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1881 - 328 pages
...OPPRESSED with grief, oppressed 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 sickening 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! 
