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" The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife... "
A Manual of Elocution Founded Upon the Philosophy of the Human Voice - Page 343
by M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 396 pages
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray LL.B., Late Professor of Modern Languages ...

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...
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The grave, a poem. To which are added An elegy in a country church-yard, by ...

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...afield! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! i •. J Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor grandeur...
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Poétique anglaise, Volume 3

Albin Joseph U. Hennet - 1806 - 458 pages
...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...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 ,...
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Poems on various subjects, selected by E. Tomkins

E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...their sire's return. Or climb his knee the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their-sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke;...bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not amhition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and desliny ohscure; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful...
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Poetical Works

Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...envy'd kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn E»k>be has broke; How jocund did they drive their team afield!...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...
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Elegant Extracts, Volumes 1-2

Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...them no more the blazing earth shall bum, Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; Nor children run to eat! Can man, weak man, thy pow'r defeat? ' Gold banish'd...the name behind; Gold sow'd the world with ev'ry ill teams afield! How bo'w'd the w-oods beneath their sturdy stroke ; Let not ambition mock their useful...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: W. Thompson, Blair ...

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 686 pages
...clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. Por them no more the hla/ing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening...broke! How jocund did they drive their team afield! Howbow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Lft not Ambition mock their useful toil. Their homely...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 14

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 622 pages
...hurn, No more shall rouse them from their luv\ly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall bum, Ur busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run...glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team atield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil,...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 15

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 680 pages
...bum, Or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb bis knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest...stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiuy obscure; Kur Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile, The short and simple...
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The beauties of the poets: a collection of moral and sacred poetry, compiled ...

Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...busy housewife ply her ev'ning care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his kuees, the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to 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...
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