 | Choice descriptive poetry - 1852 - 112 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 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... | |
 | Class-book - Poetry - 1852 - 152 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 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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1852 - 470 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 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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1852 - 460 pages
...share. t 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... | |
 | English literature - 1852 - 460 pages
...share. x 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 384 pages
...Georg. iii. 639. " Labour him with many a sturdy stroke." Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of...e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour. 35 The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If memory o'er... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 362 pages
...iii. 639. •i T^hour him with many a sturdy stroke." 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 th' inevitable hour. & The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - Children's literature, English - 1854 - 332 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1854 - 102 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... | |
 | Collection - 1856 - 120 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... | |
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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... 
