If 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 cruelty or scorn ? Or why has man the will and power To make his fellow mourn... Lord Roldan - Page 269by Allan Cunningham - 1836Full view - About this book
| Harry Thurston Peck - Anthologies - 1901 - 462 pages
...poor petition spurn, Unmindful, though a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn. " If 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 cruelty or scorn ? Or why has man the will and power To make his... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1106 pages
...petition spurn, Unmindful, 'though a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn. " If I 'm designed ave reality : Thou art to me but as a wave Of the ? If not, why am I subject to His cruelty or scorn ? Or why has man the will and power To make his... | |
| English literature - 1926 - 700 pages
...that is couplit to foul thraldome." But four centuries wrought changes in the tune : If I'm designed yon lordling's slave, By Nature's law designed, Why was an independent wish E'er planted in my mind ? Seen in the light of social history this is right enough. But — and it is best expressed colloquially... | |
| Henry Davenport Northrup - English poetry - 1888 - 790 pages
...poor petition spurn, Unmindful, 'though a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn. "If 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 cruelty an scorn ? Or why has man the will... | |
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