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... The Home Book of Verse for Young Folks - Page 4131923 - 538 pagesFull view - About this book
| Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 pages
...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...: How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bovv'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
| 1800 - 322 pages
...their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her ev'ning care; No children run to lisp their sire's return,...; 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... | |
| Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1802 - 152 pages
...readers will consult a dictionary, for the meaning of such words as they do wot clearly understand. " Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow...glebe has broke; Ho"W jocund did they drive their team a field ! How bovv'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Thefe three last stanzas point out the... | |
| Robert Blair - 1804 - 132 pages
...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...: How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! i •. J Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1804 - 224 pages
...flitts by on leathern wing, " Or where the beetle winds " His small but sullen horn." No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied...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 Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...evening care : No children run to lisp their sire's return , Jj DESCRIPTIVE PIECES. Book vij. Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest...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... | |
| 1806 - 408 pages
...their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, €)r busy housewife ply her ev'ning care, No children run to lisp their sire's return,....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... | |
| Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - 1806 - 456 pages
...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...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 - 1807 - 728 pages
...Forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn, The swallow twitt'ring from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion,...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... | |
| English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...Or busy housewife ply her evening care : No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb hi* 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... | |
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