 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...  Poetical Favorites, Yours and Mine - Page 1351911 - 454 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1874 - 588 pages
...useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; NI ir grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of... | |
 | Thomas Warton - English poetry - 1753 - 168 pages
...the envied kifs to fhare. K Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke: How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke! Let not ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely joys, and deftiny obfcure; Nor... | |
 | Thomas Warton - English poetry - 1753 - 164 pages
...the envied kifs to fhare. K Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke ! Let not ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely joys, and deftiny obfcure ; Nor... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1755 - 378 pages
...knees the envied kifs to mare. Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke J Let not Ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely joys, and dcftiny obfcure; Nor... | |
 | Collection - English poetry - 1755 - 378 pages
...the envied kifs to fhare. Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke! Let not Ambition mock their ufcful toil, Their homely joys, and deftiny obfcure; Nor... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1758 - 384 pages
...the envied kifs to fhare. Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy Aroke t Let not Ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely joys, and deftiny obfcure ; Nor... | |
 | Thomas Warton - Dialect poetry, Scottish - 1759 - 168 pages
...the envied kifs to lliare. Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bovv'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke! Let not ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely... | |
 | Robert Lloyd - English poetry - 1762 - 308 pages
...the envied kifs to fhare. Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods -beneath their fturdy ftroke! Let CARMEN ELEGIACUM, In CIM^TERIO RUSTICO compofltum. AUdiftin ! quam lenta fonans... | |
 | Robert Lloyd - English poetry - 1762 - 312 pages
...the envied kifs to fhare. 1 Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke! Let CARMEN ELEGIACUM, In CIM^ETERIO RUSTICO compofitum. AUdiftin ! quam lenta fonans... | |
 | Collection - 1765 - 418 pages
...knees the envied kifs to mare. Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke ! Let not Ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely joys, and dcffiny obfcure ; Nor... | |
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