 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1851 - 468 pages
...to share. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Nor busy housewife ply her evening care; 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 a disdainful smile, The short and simple... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knee* the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their...glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team a-fleld I How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil,... | |
 | Choice descriptive poetry - 1852 - 112 pages
...EXTRACT FROM AN ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. BENEATH these rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf, in many a mouldering heap ;...How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1852 - 470 pages
...yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The breezy...How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | Henry Philip Tappan - Europe - 1852 - 318 pages
...the hamlet sleep. " The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twitt'ring from his lowly shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn,...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... | |
 | Class-book - Poetry - 1852 - 152 pages
...for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. 83 The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow...How jocund did they drive their team a-field ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil Their homely... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1852 - 332 pages
...Hamlet sleep. The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn, The swallow twitt'ring from the straw built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn,...How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition raock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | English literature - 1852 - 248 pages
...horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing heafth;«hall*burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; No children...How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | English literature - 1852 - 460 pages
...care ; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. x Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield ; Their...How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | Donald Lines Jacobus - Reference - 1968 - 134 pages
...York, Ohio, and the west, would doubtless have been increased. Oft did the harvest to their tickle yield; Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke;...afield! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke. — Thomas Gray. XVI GENEALOGY AND EUGENICS Examine well your blood. — Shakespeare. In a psychological... | |
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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. 
