 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...  A dictionary of poetical illustrations - Page 105by Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877Full view - About this book
 | Class-book - 1852 - 152 pages
...horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; No children...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... | |
 | 1852 - 248 pages
...horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing heafth;«hall*burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; No children...stroke ! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor grandeur hear, with a disdainful smile, The short and... | |
 | Choice descriptive poetry - 1852 - 112 pages
...— No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; No children...stroke ! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure : Nor grandeur hear, with a disdainful smile, The short and... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1852 - 470 pages
...horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; No children...stroke ! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor grandeur hear, with a disdainful smile, The short and... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray - 1852 - 332 pages
...horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care : No children...woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition raock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful... | |
 | Henry Philip Tappan - 1852 - 318 pages
...horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. " For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; No children...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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1852 - 460 pages
...care ; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. t Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield ; Their...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... | |
 | Richard D. Brown - 1991 - 385 pages
...rank, expressed a similar view more picturesquely in his "Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard": Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow...sturdy stroke! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor Grandeur hear with disdainful smile The short and simple... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 pages
...horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children...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... | |
 | Brian Short - 1992 - 260 pages
...horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children...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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