 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 384 pages
...return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, as Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke : How...sturdy stroke. Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; so Var. V. 24. Or] Nor. Ms. W. V. 25. Sickle] Sickles. Ms.... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - Children's literature, English - 1854 - 332 pages
...CHUECHYAED. 289 Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mould'ring heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude...stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile, The short and-simple... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 pages
...shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mould' ring heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rnde forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The breezy call of...drive their team a-field ! How bow'd the woods beneath the'r sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure;... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 pages
...mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.3 The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn, The swallow...; How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bow '(I the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | American poetry - 1854 - 456 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...glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their teams afield ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Elocution - 1854 - 440 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...How jocund did they drive their team a-field ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy strode Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys... | |
 | William Collins - English poetry - 1854 - 430 pages
...lowly bed. For them no nfore the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow...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... | |
 | Edwin Waugh - Lancashire (England) - 1855 - 282 pages
...shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse thom from their lowly bed. " For then no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply...How jocund did they drive their team a-field ! How how'ii the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! " Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
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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... 
