 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's Edinburgh Journal - Page 2521848Full view - About this book
 | Hugh Miller - 1859 - 562 pages
...hour Of light no likeness was bequeathed— no name." CHAPTER XIX. " See yonder poor o'er-labour'd wight, So abject, mean, and vile. Who begs a brother...him leave to toil ; And see his lordly fellow-worm The poor petition spurn." — BDENS. WORK foiled me about the end of June 1828 ; and, acting on the... | |
 | James Ballantine - 1859 - 605 pages
...heard an " idle hand " reading that saddest of all Burns' poems : — " See yonder poor o'er-labonred 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." It is indeed... | |
 | John N. Crawford - 1903
...man's the gowd for a' that," and that a peasant was as good as a lord. 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. And so he worked... | |
 | 1903
...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... | |
 | Mildred Lewis Rutherford - 1906 - 750 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 - 656 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 - 148 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 - 562 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 - 331 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 - 331 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."... | |
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