 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 bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny...  Words: Their Use and Abuse - Page 315by William Mathews - 1896 - 494 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 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 oft the stubborn glebe has broke : How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bovv'd the woods beneath their sturdy... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 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 oft the stubborn glebe has broke: Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor Grandeur... | |
 | English poetry - 1800 - 322 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 oft the stubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - English poetry - 1802 - 152 pages
...readers will consult a dictionary, for the meaning of such words as they do wot clearly understand. " Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke; Ho"W jocund did they drive their team a field ! How bovv'd the woods beneath their sturdy... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1804 - 224 pages
...sullen horn." 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 glebe has broke ! How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...their sire's return , Jj DESCRIPTIVE PIECES. Book vij. 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 jocund did they drive their team a-field ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy... | |
 | Robert Blair - 1804 - 132 pages
...evening-care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb hisjcnees ihe 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!... | |
 | E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pages
...evening care ; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climh his knee the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stuhhorn glehe has hroke; How jocund did they drive their team a-field ! How how'd the woods heneath... | |
 | Albin Joseph U. Hennet - 1806 - 458 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 oft the stubborn glebe has broke: How jocund did they drive their team afiekl! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke!... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 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 oft the stubborn glebe has broke .How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke... | |
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