 | Brian Short - History - 1992 - 260 pages
...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...smile, The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike... | |
 | Roger D. Sell, Peter Verdonk - History - 1994 - 278 pages
...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...afield! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! (Thomas Gray 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard') Some few years later, a similar combination would... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp their sire's retum. Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubbom glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bowed the woods beneath their... | |
 | William Harmon - Literary Collections - 1998 - 386 pages
...houswife 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...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... | |
 | Stephanie Sandler - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 388 pages
...houswife 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, 25 Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team afield! How... | |
 | William Blake - Art - 2000 - 132 pages
...COUNTRY CHURCH- YARD. 151 Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow oft the flubborn glebe has broke: How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bow 'dthewoods beneath their fturdyftrokel Let not Ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely joys,... | |
 | Kent Gramm - History - 2001 - 350 pages
...Houswife 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...Smile, The short and simple Annals of the Poor. The Boast of Heraldry, the Pomp of Pow'r, And all that Beauty, all that Wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike... | |
 | Genealogy - 1910 - 538 pages
...a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. "Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their...broke How jocund did they drive their team afield How bowed the woods beneath their •sturdy stroke." This is the oldest cemetery in Berlin or New Britain.... | |
 | Cambridge International Examinations - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2005 - 272 pages
...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...broke; How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | John Reid - Poetry - 2005 - 153 pages
...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, The furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bow'd... | |
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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... 
