 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1821 - 196 pages
...their sire's return. Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their siekle 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... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...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...smile The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the'... | |
 | English poetry - 1822 - 418 pages
...ev'ning 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...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... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 584 pages
...Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their harrow 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 Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...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...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... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...ev'ning 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...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... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 460 pages
...Their harrow 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...smile The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the',... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1824 - 478 pages
...shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from the,ir lowly bed. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow...broke ; How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke '. Let not Amhition mock their useful toil, Their... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...evening care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. ently o'er th' accustom'd oak ; Sweet bird that shunn'st...musical, most melancholy ! Thee chauntress oft the 1 How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 464 pages
...harrow oft the stubborn glebe lias 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 grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple... | |
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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... 
