 | 1846 - 436 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 bowed the woods beneath their sturdy strobe ! Let not ambition mock their useful... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 էջ
...tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mould'ring heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow...! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke 1 Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor grandeur hear... | |
 | Timothy Dwight Sprague - 1847 - 408 էջ
...but now there is a fresh grave beside him, and we miss another sun-burned brow and stalwart form ; " 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!" But now they are laid cold — powerless — silent,... | |
 | Thomas Miller - 1847 - 140 էջ
...Elegy, " which I hope all of you have read, has summed up such a life in a few lines, where he says, " Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow...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... | |
 | William Balmbro'. Flower - 1848 - 304 էջ
...holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings 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 their sturdy stroke '. Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 էջ
...busy housewife ply her evening care ; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knee the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their...How jocund did they drive their team a-field ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 466 էջ
...more the blazing hearth shall burn, Nor busy housewife ply her evening care ; 25 No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied...broke ; How jocund did they drive their team afield ! 30 How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 էջ
...Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; No children run. to lisp their sire's return, Or climb hia knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest...! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke I Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur hear... | |
 | Salem Town - 1850 - 374 էջ
...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, 9. The boast... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 էջ
...those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap Each in hie narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of...How jocund did they drive their team a-field! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! 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... 
