 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 266 sidor
...housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees, the envy'd kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle...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... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 sidor
...mould'ring heap, Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The'cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 sidor
...busy housewife ply her eyeuiug care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb lu .( kuees s it to be found but iu the finest of our soils. At...companion the famous Jonathan Swift, who retained no a-fleld 1 How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke I Let not ambition mock their useful toil,... | |
 | Moses Severance - 1832 - 312 sidor
...evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. 7. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield ; Their...! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! 8. Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur... | |
 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 sidor
...WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. TH E curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods...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... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 sidor
...housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees, the envy'd kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle...How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile, The short... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 sidor
...care ; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. 7. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield ; Their...! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! 8. Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure ; Nor grandeur... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1839 - 362 sidor
...more the blazing hearth shall burn', Or busy housewife* ply her evening core'; Nor childrenb run to lisp their sire's return', Or climb his knees', the...has broke'; How jocund" did they drive their team a-field'I How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke'! Let not ambition mock their useful toil',... | |
 | John Richard Beste - 1839 - 656 sidor
...them. Adieu ! for the present, I must take leave of you and your countrymen. As individuals you * " Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow...How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke." GHAT. are, in England, all that a Cosmopolite could wish you to be: how different from what you shew... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1839 - 166 sidor
...de sillons traça leur soc laborieux ! Comme au sein des travaux leurs chants étaient joyeux, vu. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield ; Their...How jocund did they drive their team a-field ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! VII. VIII. /i/iís кáтeo f\KfT, a\aCóvfs, &aа firóvaiтav... | |
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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 joys, and... 
