 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 478 էջ
...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...bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke '. Let not Amhition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur hear with a... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 էջ
...no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care : Nor children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied...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... | |
 | George Merriam - 1828 - 292 էջ
...holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tiuklings lull the distant folds ; Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping...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... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 էջ
...rouse them from their lowly bed. The swallow, twittering from the straw-built shed, For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply...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... | |
 | George Merriam - 1828 - 286 էջ
...horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall bum, Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; No children...How jocund did they drive their team afield ! . How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! 14* Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | George Merriam - 1828 - 282 էջ
...no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; Ns children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied...How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bowed the woods beneath tkeir sturdy stroke ! -J* 170 THE AMERICAN READEU.^| Let not Ambition mock... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1829 - 290 էջ
...yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The breezy...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 էջ
...busy housewife ply her eyeuiug care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb lu .( kuees s it to be found but iu the finest of our soils. At...companion the famous Jonathan Swift, who retained no a-fleld 1 How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke I Let not ambition mock their useful toil,... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1831 - 294 էջ
...lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield , Their...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 joys... | |
 | Moses Severance - 1832 - 312 էջ
...evening 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...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 homely... | |
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The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn Or busy housewife... 
