 So abject, mean, and vile, Who begs a brother of the earth To give him leave to toil ; And see his lordly fellow-worm The poor petition spurn, Unmindful, though a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn. If I'm designed yon lordling's slave — By nature's...  The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Burns - Pagina 205di Robert Burns, James Currie - 1869 - 612 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Robert Burns, Alfred Howard - 1826 - 226 pagine
...wife And helpless offspring mourn. If I'm design'd yon lordling's slave— By nature's law design'd, Why was an independent wish E'er planted in my mind ? If not, why am I subject to Or why has man the will and power To make his fellow mourn ! Vet, let this not too much, my son, Disturb... | |
 | Valentín Llanos Gutiérrez - 1826 - 384 pagine
...Inrdling's slave, By nature's law design'd, \Vhy was an independent wish E'er planted in my mind ? If nut, why am I subject to His cruelty or scorn ? Or why has man the will and pow'r To make his fellow mourn •" BURNS. RETURNING now to our hero, whom we left in the long room,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1831 - 484 pagine
...helpless offepring mourn. DC. 1 1f I'm design'd yon lordling's slave, — By nature's law design'd, Why was an independent wish E'er planted in my mind...His cruelty or scorn ? Or why has man the will and pow'r To make his fellow mourn ? "Yet, let not this, too much, my son, Disturb thy youthful breast... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pagine
...I'm designed yon lordling's slave — By nature's law designed, — Why was an independent wish E er planted in my mind ? If not, why am I subject to His...Disturb thy youthful breast : This partial view of humankind Is surely not the last ! The poor, oppressed, honest man Had never, sure, been born, Had... | |
 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - 1834 - 370 pagine
...And helpless offspring mouru. If I'm design'd yon lordling's slave — By Nature's law design'd — Why was an independent wish E'er planted in my mind...Disturb thy youthful breast ; This partial view of human-kind Is surely not the last ! The poor, oppressed, honest man Had never, sure, been born, Had... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1834 - 420 pagine
...easily answered by the oppressor : — " If I'm designed yon lordling's slave, By Nature's law designed, Why was an independent wish E'er planted in my mind...has man the will and power .To make his fellow mourn ?" The sage of the banks of Ayr intimates to the indignant bard that a future state, where the great... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 360 pagine
...I'm designed0 yon lordling's SLATE', By nature's law designed'0 Why was an independent* wish' E'er0 planted in my mind'? If not , why am I subject to'...man the will and power' To make his fellow mourn'? *&U4r'nite— not, owUer'nate. 'Fi'vnr-lta. «D4-Blnde'— not, te-xinde'. «ire. Yet', let not this... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1835 - 440 pagine
...AnJ helpless offspring mourn. IX. If I'm design'd yon lordling's slave — By Nature's law design'd, Why was an independent wish E'er planted in my mind? If not, why am I suhject to His cruelty or scorn ? Or why has man tee will and pow'r To make his fellow mourn ? X. Yet... | |
 | J H Hedley - 1836 - 352 pagine
...wife And helpless offspring mourn. If I'm to be yon lordling's slave .— By Nature's law design'd — Why was an independent wish E'er planted in my mind ? If not, why am 1 subject to His cruelty or scorn? Or why has man the will and power To make his fellow mourn? Yet,... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames - 1837 - 244 pagine
...BURNS. If I'm designed yon lordling's sUre, By Nature's law design'?, Why was an independent wish Ere planted in my mind ? If not, why am I subject to His...has man the will and power To make his fellow mourn ? WILLIAM COWPER. 191 Then let us pray that come it may, As come it shall for a' that, That sense and... | |
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