 | John Young - Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 - 1810 - 432 pages
...envied kiss to share. VII. 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 bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! VIII. Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 628 pages
...the envied kiss to share. 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 bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...the envied kiss to share. 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 bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, « Their homely... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscurej Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile, The short ami simple annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that weal.h e'er gave, •wait alike th' inevitable hour, The paths... | |
 | Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 pages
...the envy'd kiss to share. 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 bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | Thomas Branagan - Bibliography - 1812 - 370 pages
...useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pornp of pow'r, And all that beauty all that wealth e'ervgave, Await alike th' inevitable hour : The... | |
 | English poetry - 1814 - 310 pages
...furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their teams afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition...annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour ; The paths... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke : How jocund did they drive their teams a-field i How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not ambition...annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour ; The paths... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...the envied kiss to share. 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 bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | Thomas Branagan - Charity - 1815 - 376 pages
...Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team afield! Howbow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke.' Let not ambition...smile, The short and simple annals of the poor. The biast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave. Await alike th... | |
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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. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn... 
