| William Sherwood - 1856 - 466 páginas
...no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; Nor children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied...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... | |
| Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 578 páginas
...more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; Nor children run to Map e teams afield ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful... | |
| Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 páginas
...holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds : Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping...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... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 páginas
...mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.3 The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn, The swallow...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... | |
| John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 páginas
...sleep. (299> The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the Btraw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn,...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... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1857 - 464 páginas
...No more shr.ll rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Nor busy housewife ply her evening care ; No children...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... | |
| Elias Nason - 1877 - 332 páginas
...other landlord than the Lord of all the land, to whom I owe the most sincere gratitude." DICKINSON. " Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow...How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! " THOMAS GRAY. As the location of the church on Meeting-House... | |
| Richard D. Brown - 1991 - 385 páginas
...rank, expressed a similar view more picturesquely in his "Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard": Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow...sturdy stroke! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor Grandeur hear with disdainful smile The short and simple... | |
| William Harmon - 1998 - 386 páginas
...shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy houswife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp 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 - 1999 - 388 páginas
...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...sturdy stroke! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; 30 Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile, The short and... | |
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