 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 sider
...for ever laid, The rude Forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed,...share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their harrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke : How jocund did they drive their team afield 1 How bow'd the... | |
 | John Hunter (of Uxbridge.) - 1848 - 56 sider
...clarion, or the echoing horn, — No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed 1 For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply...Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield ; Their harrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke. How jocund did they drive their team a-field ! How bowed the... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 sider
...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... | |
 | George Croly - 1849 - 416 sider
...twittering from the straw-built shed, L--1 i The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, U No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no...share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their harrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team a-field! How bowed the... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 466 sider
...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... | |
 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 sider
...a mouldering heap Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The breezy call of incense-breathing moru, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed,...share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their harrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team a-field ! How bowed... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 sider
...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 sider
...for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 sider
...for ever laid, The rude4 forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed,...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... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 sider
...forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed,...How jocund did they drive their team a-field! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! 16 Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
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For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn Or busy housewife ply her 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... 
