 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...  Lancashire Sketches - Page 240by Edwin Waugh - 1869 - 309 pagesFull view - About this book
 | British poets - 1822 - 284 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 1822 - 418 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 584 pages
...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...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... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 pages
...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...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... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...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...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... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 478 pages
...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 oft the stubborn glebe...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 pages
...lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their ; Sweet bird that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most...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 - 460 pages
...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 mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure^ Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1825 - 346 pages
...pudica mulier in partem juvans Domum atque dulces liberos, Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, 25 Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke : How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...Oft did the harvest to their siekle yield, Then- furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke ; How joeund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not ambition moek their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obseure ; Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful... | |
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