 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 the woods beneath their sturdy stroke!  Poems by Mr. Gray - Page 127by Thomas Gray - 1775 - 136 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Warton - English poetry - 1753 - 164 pages
...care : _STo children run to lifp their fire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kifs to fhare. K Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow...How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke! Let not ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely... | |
 | Thomas Warton - Dialect poetry, Scottish - 1753 - 164 pages
...evening care : No children run to lifp their fire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kifs to mare. K Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow...: How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke ! Let not ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely... | |
 | Collection - English poetry - 1755 - 378 pages
...fhall roufe them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth mail burn, Or bufy houfwife ply her evening care: No children run to lifp their...broke; How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke! Let not Ambition mock their ufcful toil, Their homely... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1758 - 384 pages
...fhall roufe them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth fhall burn, Or bufy houfwife ply her evening care : No children run to lifp their...How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy Aroke t Let not Ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely... | |
 | Collection - 1758 - 394 pages
...evening care: No children run to lifp their fire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kifs to mare. Oft did the harveft to' their fickle yield, Their...How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy fbroke t Let not Ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely... | |
 | Robert Lloyd - English poetry - 1762 - 308 pages
...lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth fhall burn, Or bufy houfewife ply her evening care : i No children run to lifp their fire's return, Or climb...How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods -beneath their fturdy ftroke! Let CARMEN ELEGIACUM, In CIM^TERIO RUSTICO compofltum.... | |
 | John Newbery - English poetry - 1762 - 292 pages
...houfewife ply her evening care : No children run to lifp their fire's return, Or climb his knees the envy'd kifs to fhare. Oft did the harveft to their fickle...glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team a field ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke ! Let not ambition mock their ufeful toil,... | |
 | Robert Lloyd - English poetry - 1762 - 312 pages
...Nec curret raptim genitoris ad ofcula proles, Nec reducem agnofcent aemula turba patrem. I ia Quam Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke I How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftrokef Let... | |
 | Collection - 1765 - 418 pages
...evening care: No children run to lifp their Tire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kifs to mare. Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow...How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke ! Let not Ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1765 - 412 pages
...care : No children run to lifp their fire's return, Or climb his knees the .envied kifs to mare. Ofc Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow...How jocund did they drive their team afield ' How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke ! Let not Ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely... | |
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