 | Mary Anne Marzials - English poetry - 1867 - 332 pages
...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...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... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1867 - 336 pages
...share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke : 30 How jocund did they drive their team a-field! How...sturdy stroke! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile 35 The short and... | |
 | Mary Anne Marzials - English poetry - 1867 - 332 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke : How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not Ambition...annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour ; 35 The paths... | |
 | Richard D. Brown - History - 1991 - 385 pages
...Church-yard": 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...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... | |
 | Brian Short - History - 1992 - 260 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...Their furrow oft the stubbom glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not Ambition...pomp of pow'r. And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave. Awaits alike th' inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile, The ut through the clouds I'll never float Until I have...Boat, Shaped like the crescent- moon. 12817 'She Was a e'er gave, Awaits alike th' inevitable hour, The paths of glory lead but to the grave. 4292 Elegy Written... | |
 | William Harmon - Literary Collections - 1998 - 386 pages
...useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of...pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike th' inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye... | |
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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... 
