 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 584 sider
...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 harrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke : How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 sider
...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...smile, The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await, alike,... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 sider
...housewife ply her ev'ning 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...smile The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of Heraldry, the pomp of Pow'r, And all that Beauty, all that Wealth e'er gave, Await alike th'... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 460 sider
...Their harrow 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...smile The short and simple 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',... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 478 sider
...shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from the,ir lowly bed. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow...bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke '. Let not Amhition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur hear with a... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 sider
...housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the cks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er th' accustom'd oak...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... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 464 sider
...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 sider
...housewife ply her evening care : Nor children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. : Oft did the harvest to their...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... | |
 | Richard D. Brown - 1991 - 385 sider
...rank, expressed a similar view more picturesquely in his "Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard": 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 disdainful smile The short and simple... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 sider
...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...smile The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike... | |
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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... 
