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" The 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 rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn. Or busy housewife... "
A Complete Dictionary of Poetical Quotations: Comprising the Most Excellent ... - Page 204
edited by - 1855 - 576 pages
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Class Book of Poetry: Consisting of Selections from Distinguished English ...

John Seely Hart - Readers - 1857 - 394 pages
...incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the Btraw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed....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. Oft...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...incense-breathing Morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed....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. Oft...
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Sketches and Recollections of Lynchburg

Margaret Anthony Cabell - Lynchburg (Va.) - 1858 - 364 pages
...morn, The swallows twittering from their straw-built shed ; The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed."...hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; Nor children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share."...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2

Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 608 pages
...incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed....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. Oft...
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Select specimens of the English poets, ed. by A. De Vere

Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed....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. Oft...
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The pupil's manual of choice reading, arranged by T.B. Smith

Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 pages
...incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed....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. Oft...
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Lovers

Brian Friel - Drama - 1968 - 124 pages
...Andrew! ANDY. "The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn " CISSY. Dirty animal ! ANDY. "No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no...hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care " Thomas Gray, l7l6-l77l. HANNA. Mother, please! Listen to me, Andrew! ANDY. She (Hanna) knows...
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The English Rural Community: Image and Analysis

Brian Short - History - 1992 - 260 pages
...incense-breathing Morn. The swallow twitt'ring from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed....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. Oft...
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Best Remembered Poems

Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 pages
...incense-breathing Morn, The swallow twitt'ring from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed....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. Oft...
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Aspects of Modern English Usage: for advanced students

Paul Lambotte, Harry Campbell, J. Potter - Foreign Language Study - 1998 - 456 pages
...Gray's 'Elegy' gives some good examples of its poetic use: ...The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed....hearth shall burn Or busy housewife ply her evening care :' Note 5 : When repetition is involved, either 'not... any more' or, less frequently, 'not again'...
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