 | 1800 - 322 sidor
...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...annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, : : And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gaves Await alike th' inevitable hour, The paths... | |
 | Robert Blair - 1804 - 132 sidor
...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!...smile, The short and simple annals of the poor. The 'vast of heraldy, the pomp of power, .and all that beauty, all that wealth e!er gave, Await alike th'... | |
 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - 1806 - 456 sidor
...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...wealth e'er gave. Await alike th' inevitable hour : ' .M The paths of glory lead but to the grava. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If meoi'ry... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 sidor
...sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn E»k>be 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; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 sidor
...useful toil, Their homely joys, and desliny ohscure; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful 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'inevitable hour; The paths of... | |
 | Albin Joseph U. Hennet - 1806 - 458 sidor
...'yield", Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke: How jocund did they drive their team afiekl! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not ambition mock their useful rtoil , Their homely joys , and destiny obscure ; Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile , The short... | |
 | William Enfield - 1808 - 434 sidor
...usual 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 heraldry, the pomp Cf pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, ' Await alike th' inevitable hour, The paths... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 sidor
...their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing earth shall bum, Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; f good ! seducing cheat! Can man, weak man, thy pow'r...the name behind; Gold sow'd the world with ev'ry ill Their homely joys and destiny obscure i Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile. The short and simple... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 308 sidor
...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...annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await ajrle th' inevitable hour, The paths of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 622 sidor
...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...annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that weal. h e'er gave, .wait alike th' inevitable hour, The paths... | |
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Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor. 
