 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 pages
...yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The breezy...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed For them no more the blazing hearth shall bum, 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... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his drony flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds; Save...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Disturb her ancient solitary reign. Beneath those rugged elms,...stroke ! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall bum, bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joye,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1845 - 456 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...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... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1847 - 344 pages
...tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mould'ring heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow...! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke 1 Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor grandeur hear... | |
 | William Balmbro'. Flower - 1848 - 304 pages
...day, The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering...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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1849 - 466 pages
...more the blazing hearth shall burn, Nor busy housewife ply her evening care ; 25 No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied...broke ; How jocund did they drive their team afield ! 30 How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; No children run. to lisp their sire's return, Or climb hia knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest...! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke I Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur hear... | |
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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... 
