 See yonder poor, o'erlabour'd wight, 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.  Chambers' Edinburgh Journal - Page 2521848Full view - About this book
 | 1903 - 648 pages
...indignant, of the dependence of the many in Scotland on the titled few. "See yonder poor, o'erlabored wight, So abject, mean and vile, Who begs a brother...him leave to toil; And see his lordly fellow-worm The poor petition spurn, Unmindful, though a weeping wife And helpless children mourn. If I'm designed... | |
 | William Ward - 1905 - 170 pages
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 | 1894 - 490 pages
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 | Mildred Lewis Rutherford - 1906 - 806 pages
...inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn ! See yonder poor, o'crlabor'd wight, So abject, meau, 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.... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1907 - 690 pages
...perhaps since Langland's Piers Plowman has the complaint of the poor found such articulate expression : "See yonder poor, o'erlaboured wight, So abject, mean,...him leave to toil; And see his lordly fellow-worm The poor petition spurn, Unmindful though a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn." When Burns... | |
 | William John Grayson - 1907 - 160 pages
...also assigned by Providence, and to perform it faithfully. PART SECOND See yonder poor o'erlabored wight, So abject, mean, and vile, Who begs a brother...him leave to toil, And see his lordly fellow-worm The poor petition spurn, Unmindful though a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn. — BURNS. Where... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1860 - 596 pages
...name." CHAPTER XIX. " See yonder poor o'er-lahour'd wight, So abject, mean, and rile. Who hega a hrother of the earth To give him leave to toil; And see his lordly fellow-worm The poor petition spurn." — Bc!1ra. WORK failed me about the end of June 1828 ; and, acting on the... | |
 | William Shuler Harris - 1907 - 342 pages
...describes such a man: "See yonder, poor, o'erlabored wight, So abject, mean and vile, Who begs his 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."... | |
 | William Shuler Harris - 1908 - 352 pages
...describes such a man: "See yonder, poor, o'erlabored wight, So abject, mean and vile, Who begs his 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."... | |
 | Jean Armour Burns Club (Washington, D.C.), John Wilson - 1908 - 118 pages
...suggestive fact that each of these sprang from the humble walks of life. Each may be described as one "Who begs a brother of the earth To give him leave to toll," and each proved, by his life and achievements, that, however hard the lot of poverty, " a man's... | |
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