 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...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...glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team a-fleld! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil,... | |
 | William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 pages
...their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her ev'ning care : No children run to lisp their sire's return,...! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! The boast of Heraldry, the pomp of Pow'r, And all that Beauty, all that Wealth e'er gave, Await alike... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1851 - 468 pages
...No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Nor busy housewife ply her evening care ; No children...broke ; How jocund did they drive their team afield 1 How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke. Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1851 - 472 pages
...No more shall rouse them from then: lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Nor busy housewife ply her evening care ; No children...broke ; How jocund did they drive their team afield 1 How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke. Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1851 - 378 pages
...return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, 35 Their furrow oft the .stubborn glebe has broke : How...strOke . Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; .*i Var. V. 24. Or] Nor. Ms. W. V. 25. Sickle] Sickles. Ms.... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...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...glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team a-fleld I How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1851 - 468 pages
...to share. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Nor busy housewife ply her evening care; 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... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1852 - 332 pages
...Hamlet sleep. The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn, The swallow twitt'ring from the straw built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn,...woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition raock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful... | |
 | Henry Philip Tappan - Europe - 1852 - 318 pages
...the hamlet sleep. " The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twitt'ring from his lowly shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn,...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... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the...glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team a-fleld ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not ambition mock their useful toil,... | |
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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... 
