 | 1862 - 1406 pages
...were amidst the surrounding scenes, hesays : — " For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, <Jr busy housewife ply her evening care : No children...sickle yield ; Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broku . How jocund did Ihey drive their team a-field! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke.... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion,...glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team a-fleld ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not ambition mock their useful toil,... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from her straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or thff echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their...How jocund did they drive their team a-field ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1853 - 492 pages
...No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. 6. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, 7. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield ; Their...! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! 8. Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor grandeur... | |
 | Titus Lucretius Carus - History - 1984 - 272 pages
...the compliment of imitating these verses (G. 2. 523-4), and so, in turn, did Gray: For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply...sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. (Elegy written in a country Church Tard 21-4) 894 iam iam mm ' never again'. This is an unusual... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1927 - 778 pages
...mourning. Men say of the dead — to use Gray's paraphrase of these very lines — ' " For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply...sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share : " but they do not add that for all these things the desire will have passed away ; and they... | |
 | Donna Landry - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 344 pages
...Elegy, from which Gray's poor have been banished, of course, since they are dead: For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply...sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. (21-24) In Yearsley's peasant household, people read - not tracts or homiletic verse, but... | |
 | M. Owen Lee - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 192 pages
...Horace (Odes 2.14.2122) uses Lucretius' passage, as does Thomas Gray in his Elegy: For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn. Or busy housewife ply...sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. But what is rueful in these poets, as they contemplate death ending life, becomes joyful... | |
 | William Harmon - Literary Collections - 1998 - 386 pages
...shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy houswife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their...glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team af1eld! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their... | |
 | Stephanie Sandler - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 388 pages
...rouse them from their lowly bed. 10 For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy houswife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp their...share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, 25 Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team afield! How... | |
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For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn Or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. 
