 | John Warner Barber - 1855 - 608 pages
...shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them .from their lowly bed. For them DO more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply...How jocund did they drive their team a-field ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke I .. ; not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 pages
...No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Nor busy housewife ply her evening care ; No children...glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their teams afield ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful... | |
 | 1855 - 458 pages
...No more shall rouse them from tEeir lowly Led. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Nor busy housewife ply her evening care ; No children...glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their teams afield ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 276 pages
...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 furrow...! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! 8 Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 272 pages
...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 bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! 8 Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath those rugged...afield! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! 1 The reasons of that unlvenal approbation with which this Elegy has been rwelvtd, n»T * learned from... | |
 | William Sherwood - 1856 - 466 pages
...no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; Nor children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied...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... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 578 pages
...more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; Nor children run to Map e teams afield ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful... | |
 | Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 pages
...ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath those rugged...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.3 The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn, The swallow...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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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... 
