 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 sider
...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,... | |
 | 1851 - 278 sider
...shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly hed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply...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... | |
 | William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 sider
...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 - 1851 - 468 sider
...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 - 1851 - 472 sider
...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 sider
...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.... | |
 | Richard D. Brown - 1991 - 385 sider
...rank, expressed a similar view more picturesquely in his "Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard": Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow...sturdy stroke! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor Grandeur hear with disdainful smile The short and simple... | |
 | Brian Short - 1992 - 260 sider
...Forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn. The swallow twitt'ring from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion,...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... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 sider
...Forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn, The swallow twitt'ring from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion,...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... | |
 | William Harmon - 1998 - 386 sider
...shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy houswife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their...glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team af1eld! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their... | |
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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 ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and... 
