 So haply these, my simple lays Of homely toil, may serve to show The orchard bloom and tasselled maize That skirt and gladden duty's ways, The unsung beauty hid life's common things below. Haply from them the toiler, bent Above his forge or plough, may...  Songs of Labor, and Other Poems - Page 6by John Greenleaf Whittier - 1850 - 127 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - Periodicals - 1850 - 438 pages
...bent Above his forge or plough, may gain A manlier spirit of content, And foci that life is wise.it spent Where the strong working hand makes strong the working brain." The same subdued and placid spirit which breathes through these extract*, appears in the "Wish of To-day,'*... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - Periodicals - 1850 - 462 pages
...from them the toiler, bent Above his forge or plough, may gain A manlier spirit of content, And fesl that life is wisest spent Where the strong working hand makes strong the working brain." The same subdued and placid spirit which breathes through these extracts, appears in the *'Wish of To-day,"... | |
 | Sarah Carter Edgarton Mayo - American poetry - 1853 - 346 pages
...ways, The unsung beauty hid life's common things among. Happy for them, the toiler, bent Above hia forge or plough, may gain A manlier spirit of content,...strong working hand makes strong the working brain." Let Poetry then come in amid familiar things, and we shall soon own her the handmaid of Religion. The... | |
 | American essays - 1894 - 1020 pages
...gud tasselled maize That skirt and gladden duty's ways, The unsung beauty hid life's common thing* below. " Haply from them the toiler, bent Above his...strong working hand makes strong the working brain." But his deliberate spoken creed is of less consequence than the whole drift of his poetic expression... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1867 - 432 pages
...for the dull and flowerless weed Some healing virtue still must plead, So haply these, my simple laya Of homely toil, may serve to show The orchard bloom...wisest spent Where the strong working hand makes strong thft working brain. The doom which to the guilty pair Without the walls of Eden came, Transforming... | |
 | Ohio - 1877 - 552 pages
...severe labor, with least encouragement, and "Haply from them the toiler, bent Above his torge or plow, may gain A manlier spirit of content, And feel that...strong working hand makes strong the working brain." Map and Description Northeastern Ohio Rev. John Heckewelder. 1796. Reprinted from the Magazine of Western... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1871 - 506 pages
...common things helow. Haply from them the toiler, hent Ahove his forge or plongh, may gain A manljer spirit of content. And feel that life is wisest spent...Where the strong working hand makes strong the working hrain. The doom which to the gnilty pair Withont the walls of Eden came, Transforming sinless ease... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1873 - 420 pages
...tasselled maize That skirt and gladden duty's ways, The unsung beauty hid life's common things below. A manlier spirit of content, And feel that life is...the working brain. The doom which to the guilty pair Withont the walls of Eden came, Transforming sinless ease to care And rugged toil, no more shall bear... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1874 - 500 pages
...beauty hid life's common things below. Haply from them the toiler, bent Ahove his forge or plough, may A manlier spirit of content, And feel that life is...strong working hand makes strong the working brain. gain The doom which to the guilty pair Without the walls of Eden came. Transforming sinless ease to... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1878 - 580 pages
...tasselled maize That skirt ami gladden duty's ways, The unsung beauty hid life's common things below. A manlier spirit of content, And feel that life is wisest spent Where the strong working hand make* strong the working brain. The doom which to the guilty pair Without the walls of Eden came, Transforming... | |
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