 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...her evening 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 bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...care'; Nor 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 glebe has broke'; How jocund0 did they drive their team a-field'! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke'. Let not... | |
 | Moses Severance - American literature - 1835 - 314 pages
...evening care; No children rim to lisp their sire's return Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. 7. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield ; Their...the stubborn glebe has broke : How jocund did they dri ve their team afield ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stro' •• ' 8. Let not Ambition... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Oratory - 1836 - 404 pages
...evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees, the envy'd 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 ! Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile, The... | |
 | English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...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...broke ; How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke. Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...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...broke ; How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their... | |
 | Jesse Olney - Readers - 1838 - 346 pages
...care ; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. 7. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield ; Their...broke ; How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! 8. Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their... | |
 | English periodicals - 1838 - 772 pages
...parallels, which arc very acute and searching, only subjoining the following lines as a specimen : "Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke : How jocund did they drive their team a-fieldl How bent the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! " This stanza is made up of various pieces... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1839 - 154 pages
...Que de sillons tra^a leur soc laborieux ! Comme au sein des travaux leurs chants etaient joyeux, VII. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield ; Their...broke ; How jocund did they drive their team a-field ! VIII. Mi/S' Cp.fifi Kara > fX>frr', oXofowr, ovcr eirov<urav Oi>* avuiTfra. Koira > fioipar KOfiara... | |
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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... 
