 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 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 mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor grandeur bear with a disdainful smile The short and simple... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 310 pages
...stubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team afield ! Howbow'd the woodsbeneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not ambition mock their...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 of... | |
 | John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 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 a-field ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Presses, Issues of - 1826 - 190 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... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 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... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 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 a-field! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - Poetics - 1827 - 468 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... | |
 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 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...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... | |
 | George Merriam - Readers - 1828 - 286 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.... How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! 14* Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure : Nor Grandeur... | |
 | George Merriam - Readers - 1828 - 292 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 bowed the woods beneath tkeir sturdy stroke ! 14* Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure... | |
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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... 
