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. the english anthology - Page 89by T AGERTON - 1794Full view - About this book
| Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - English poetry - 1806 - 456 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 joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor... | |
| English poetry - 1806 - 408 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 joys and destiny obscure ; Nor... | |
| E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 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 amhition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and desliny ohscure; Nor... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...envy'd kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn E»k>be 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 joys and destiny obscure; Nor... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 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 joys', and destiny obscure; Nor... | |
| English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 308 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 joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor... | |
| British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 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 joys and destiny obscure; Nor... | |
| 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 joys, and destiny obscure ;... | |
| 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 homely joys, and destiny obscure... | |
| 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 joys, and destiny obscure; Nor... | |
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