Adelaide Anne Procter (1825–1864) English poet and songwriter
"Per Pacem ad Lucem".
A Chaplet of Verses (1862)
“O life! thou art a galling load,
Along a rough, a weary road,
To wretches such as I!”
Despondency.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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Fragment 250 (trans. by Plumptre), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)