 | Robert Southey - 1799 - 244 pages
...beheld since Paradise was lost, And fill with £den odours all the air. 80 The COMPLAINTS of tie PQOR. And wherefore do the Poor complain ? The rich man...behold, And we were wrapt and coated well., And yet we were a-cold. We met an old bare-headed mail, His locks were few and white, Twas bitter keen indeed,... | |
 | Poetry - 1808 - 496 pages
...shall the mental graces still , . Through endless ages live. . :',''.' . • . ..... • ' •• 'v ' COMPLAINTS OF THE POOR. AND wherefore do the poor complain ? The rich man ask'd of me, Come walk abroad with me, I said, And I will answer thee. 'Twas ev'ning, and the frozen... | |
 | 1824 - 604 pages
...either case, Will I not cease to place my trust in him, In life or death, my rock, and only shield. COMPLAINTS OF THE POOR. AND wherefore do the poor complain? The rich man ask'd of me ; Come walk abroad with me, I said, And I will answer thee. * The Lightning. 'Twas ev'uing,... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1823 - 258 pages
...course to manhood's envied stage ; Alas ! how hurryingly the ebbing years Then hasten to old age ! THE COMPLAINTS OF THE POOR. AND wherefore do the Poor complain ? The rich man ask'd of me ; . . Come walk abroad with me, I said, And I will answer thee. 'Twas evening, and the... | |
 | James Melville M'Culloch - 1831 - 250 pages
...lia^* — . ll"-j. Too L-hort snail seem the summer day. SIB WALTER SCOTT. THE COMPLAINTS OP THE POOH. AND wherefore do the poor complain ? The rich man...behold ; And we were wrapt and coated well, And yet we were a-cold. We met an old bareheaded man, His locks were few and white ; I asked him what he did... | |
 | 1843 - 572 pages
...hushand.' And the same evening Amanda and her mother witnessed the second performance of UN DE PLUS. THE COMPLAINTS OF THE POOR. And wherefore do the poor complain ? The Rich Alan ask'd of me ; Come walk ahroad with me, I said, And I will answer thee. 'Twas evening, and the... | |
 | James Campbell (teacher of English.) - 1832 - 274 pages
...you were then, and not as you are now, therefore I restore you the portion which belongs to you.' The Complaints of the Poor. And wherefore do the poor complain ? The rich man ask'd of me,— Come, ivalk abroad with me, I said, And I will answer thee. 'Twas evening, and the... | |
 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 pages
...life, and pow'r To ev'ry tree that decks thy side, Oh ! bathe the lovely flow'r ! Mia Mitford. THE COMPLAINTS OF THE POOR. "AND wherefore do the Poor complain?" The rich man ask'd of me. — " Come, walk abroad with me," I said, "And I will answer thee." 'Twas ev'ning, and... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - Great Britain - 1835 - 838 pages
...of Southey's IVSCRIPTIONS, ^particularly those on Sidney and on Hampden. THE COMPLAINTS Or THE POOH. And wherefore do the poor complain ? The rich man...walk abroad with me, I said, And I will answer thee. Twa* evening, and the frozen streets Were cheerless to behold ; And we were wrapt and coated well,... | |
 | 1835 - 616 pages
...the object : but many, founded on our knowledge and abilities. " And wherefore do the poor complain T The rich man asked of me : Come walk abroad with me, I said, And I will answer thee. " We met an old bare-headed man, His locks were few and white ; I ask'd him what he did abroad In that... | |
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• AND wherefore do the Poor complain ? " The Rich Man asked of me : " Come walk abroad with me," I said, " And I will answer thee." 'Twas evening, and the frozen streets Were cheerless to behold ; And we were wrapt and coated well, And yet we were a-cold.... 
