 Oppressed with grief, oppressed with care, ^j?t 56. A burden more than I can bear, I sit me down and sigh : Oh life ! thou art a galling load, Along a rough and weary road, To wretches such as I...  Willie Waly, and Other Poems - Page 101by James Ogg - 1873 - 208 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Peddie (of Edinburgh.) - 1860 - 200 pages
...all, it is more 37 in the language of Burns, in his gloomy " Ode to Despondency " — " 0 life, then art a galling load, Along a rough and weary road, To wretches such as I ; Dim backward as I cast my view, What sickening scenes appear— What sorrows yet may pierce me through,... | |
 | Ellen Creathorne Clayton - 1863 - 304 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, and weary road, To wretches such as I ! BURNS. A KIND of lethargic silence fell on the little circle at the hall after the departure of Charles Aylmer.... | |
 | W. S. Woodin - 1868 - 170 pages
...but in trust To spread contentment on the earth, and show that God is just. PULLING UP IN TIME ! ' Oh Life ! thou art a galling load Along a rough and weary road." Burns. OW as anybody may Off his guard be led astray ; And as little faults oft draw men on to crime,... | |
 | John McGovern - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1880 - 762 pages
...Oppressed with grief, oppressed 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 and weary road, To wretches such as I ! At every importunity, Burns dashed off' such verses as we have here read. A comparison with which... | |
 | Gordon Stables - Adventure stories - 1881 - 196 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 and weary road, To wretches such as I.' But Jack pulled me up sharp. "' Havers,'* said Jack, in a bold, manly voice. ' I tell you, Pugald,... | |
 | Definitions - 1881 - 160 pages
...time — this atom in its vow — This faint spark glimmering 'midst perpetual strife." Boone. " O — thou art a galling load, Along a rough and weary road, To wretches such as I ! " Burns. -"All thou hast to front eternity with." Carlyle. -" Is but thought." Coleridge. Is a kind of enchanted... | |
 | Anna Agnew - Mental illness - 1886 - 214 pages
...law prohibiting promiscuous visiting within the wards of our hospitals for the insane ? CHAPTER XI. Oh, life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough and weary road, To mortals such as I. —BURNS. THERE was a period of almost three years, in which I was almost as completely... | |
 | Alfred J. Bamford - China - 1888 - 336 pages
...living-dead man." SHAKSPEitE. Comedy of Errors. "The happy man's without a shirt." JOHN HEYWOOD. " 0 life! thou art a galling load Along a rough and weary road, To wretches such as I!"—BURNS. "... least of all can aught—that ever owned The heaven-regarding eye and front sublime... | |
 | Matthew Woods - Europe - 1889 - 444 pages
...Oppressed with grief, oppressed with care, A harden more than I can bear ; I set me down and sigh, O life ! thou art a galling load Along a rough and weary road, To wretches such as I." These, and such as these, expressing his penitence, charity, and remorse ; written at a time, too,... | |
 | John Willis Clark, Thomas McKenny Hughes - Geologists - 1890 - 660 pages
...'Oppressed with grief, oppressed with care, ^j?t 56. A burden more than I can bear, I sit me down and sigh : Oh life ! thou art a galling load, Along a rough and weary road, To wretches such as I ! ' " What a picture of human misery ! and I believe there is that about it which tells us of the real... | |
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