 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 460 pages
...shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. far them no more the blazing hearth shall burn , Or busy housewife...: 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 Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee chauntress oft the 1 How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | William Oxberry - Theater - 1824 - 402 pages
...useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor grandeur hear « ith a disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all 'hat beauty, all that wealth e'er gave. Await alike th' inevitable hour, The paths of... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 464 pages
...harrow oft the stubborn glebe lias 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; Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Fore-edge painting - 1825 - 346 pages
...partem juvans Domum atque dulces liberos, Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, 25 Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke : How jocund did...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 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 teams afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not ambition mock their useful... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 464 pages
...Or busy housewife ply her evening care : No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb bis knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest...: 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Presses, Issues of - 1826 - 190 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... | |
 | John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 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 a-field ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
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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... 
