 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...breezy call of incense-breathing morn. The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock : s shrill clarion, or the echoing horn No more shall...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,... | |
 | William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 pages
...their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her ev'ning care : No children run to lisp their sire's return,...! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! The boast of Heraldry, the pomp of Pow'r, And all that Beauty, all that Wealth e'er gave, Await alike... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1851 - 468 pages
...No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Nor busy housewife ply her evening care ; No children...broke ; How jocund did they drive their team afield 1 How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke. Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1851 - 472 pages
...No more shall rouse them from then: lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Nor busy housewife ply her evening care ; No children...broke ; How jocund did they drive their team afield 1 How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke. Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1851 - 378 pages
...return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, 35 Their furrow oft the .stubborn glebe has broke : How...strOke . Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; .*i Var. V. 24. Or] Nor. Ms. W. V. 25. Sickle] Sickles. Ms.... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knee* the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their...glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team a-fleld I How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1851 - 468 pages
...to share. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Nor busy housewife ply her evening care; Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield; Their furrow...broke; How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke. Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1852 - 332 pages
...Hamlet sleep. The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn, The swallow twitt'ring from the straw built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn,...woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition raock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful... | |
 | Henry Philip Tappan - Europe - 1852 - 318 pages
...the hamlet sleep. " The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twitt'ring from his lowly shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn,...How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! " Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings...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,... | |
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Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny... 
