 | Advanced reading book - Readers - 1860 - 458 pages
...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 stroke ! Let not ambition...annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour, i The paths... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1860 - 230 pages
...useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur hear, with a disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth ere gave, Await, alike, the inevitable hour ; — The paths... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 pages
...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 ! Let not Ambition...annals of the Poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave Await alike th' inevitable hour :— The paths... | |
 | James Thomson - Gift books - 1861 - 480 pages
...useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor grandeur hear, with a disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of the poor: The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, , And all that beauty, all that wealth ere gave, Await alike the inevitable hour — The paths... | |
 | William Francis Collier - American literature - 1862 - 550 pages
...useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gnve, Await alike the inevitable hour: — The paths... | |
 | R. Sim - Folk literature, Scottish - 1862 - 206 pages
...useful toil, Their homely joys and .destiny obscure; Jf or Grandeur hear, with a disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth ere gave, Await alike tli1 inevitable hour, The paths of... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 678 pages
...nseful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gnve, Await alike the inevitable hour: — The paths... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1862 - 418 pages
...useful Toil, Their homely Joys and Destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful Smile The short and simple Annals of the Poor. The Boast of Heraldry, the Pomp of Power, And all that Beauty, all that Wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike th' inevitable Hour : The Paths... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1863 - 304 pages
...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 ! Let not Ambition...annals of the Poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour ; The paths... | |
 | Selections - English poetry - 1863 - 192 pages
...useful toil , Their homely joys and destiny obscure j Nor grandeur hear with-a-disdainful-smile The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of...e'er gave , Await alike the inevitable hour : The paths-of-glory lead but to the grave . Nor yon, ye proud , impute to-these the fault If memory o'er-their-tomb... | |
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How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the Poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,... 
