 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...climb his knees, the envied kiss 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 bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...climb his kuucs the envy'd kiss to share. H Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke : How jocund did they drive their teams a-field i How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not ambition mock their useful... | |
 | English poetry - 1814 - 310 pages
...Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their teams afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful... | |
 | Thomas Branagan - Charity - 1815 - 376 pages
...climb his knees the envied kiss te share 134 Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team afield! Howbow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke.' Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
...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 ! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; SO Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and... | |
 | England - 1849 - 802 pages
...them strewed That teach the rustic moralist to die." NORTH. " Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe hath broke ; How jocund did they drive their team afield...! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke !" This stanza— says Mr Mitford — "is made up of various pieces inlaid. 'Stubborn glebe' is from... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...Or climb his knee the envied kiss 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 how'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 pages
...climb his knees, the envied kiss 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 bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let'not ambition mock Iheir useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - English literature - 1820 - 548 pages
...Or climb his knees the envied kiss 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 bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1820 - 434 pages
...climb his knees, the envied kiss 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 bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not ambition mock their useful toil,... | |
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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 glebe... 
