 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield ; Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke : How jocund did they drive their team a-field! How...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... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - Poetics - 1827 - 468 pages
...to share. 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...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... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Readers, American - 1828 - 266 pages
...to share. 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...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... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...to share. 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...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... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - Elocution - 1832 - 122 pages
...bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homeh I destiny obscure ; 30 Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful...pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Solemn, the knell from yonder ancient pile Fills all the air. inspiring joyful awe ; The... | |
 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 pages
...to share. 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...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... | |
 | Peter Mackenzie - Scotland - 1833 - 252 pages
...useful toil, Tbeir homely joys and destiny obscure, Nor grandeur hear, with a disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of...pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour : The paths of glory lead —but to the grave. Nor yon,... | |
 | Peter Mackenzie - 1833 - 350 pages
...useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure, Nor grandeur hear, with a disdainful »mile, The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of...pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour : The paths of glory lead —but to the grave. Nor you,... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...to share. 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...stroke ! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 pages
...to share. 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...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... | |
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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... 
