 | Thomas Gray - 1825 - 346 pages
...touches of the same picture : " Quod si pudica mulier in partem juvans Domum atque dulces liberos, Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, 25 Their...annals of the poor. The boast of Heraldry, the pomp of Power, And all that Beauty, all that Wealth e'er gave, Sacrum vestutis extruat lignis focum Lassi sub... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 pages
...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 has broke : How...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... | |
 | George Merriam - 1828 - 286 pages
...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 has broke ; How.... How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! 14* Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure : Nor Grandeur... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1829 - 290 pages
...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 has broke How...sturdy stroke! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur hear, with a disdainful smile, Thr short and simple... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - 1832 - 122 pages
...bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homeh I destiny obscure ; 30 Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful...pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Solemn, the knell from yonder ancient pile Fills all the air. inspiring joyful awe ; The... | |
 | Moses Severance - 1832 - 312 pages
...return Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. 7. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield ; Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke : How...! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! 8. Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...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 has broke ; How...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... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 pages
...return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. 7. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield ; Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke ; How...! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! 8. Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure ; Nor grandeur... | |
 | John Richard Beste - 1839 - 656 pages
...leave of you and your countrymen. As individuals you * " Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke ; How...How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke." GHAT. are, in England, all that a Cosmopolite could wish you to be: how different from what you shew... | |
 | George Willson - 1840 - 298 pages
...return, Or climb his knees, the envied kiss to share. 7 Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield ; Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke : How...! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke 8 Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure Nor grandeur hear... | |
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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, 25 Their furrow oft the. stubborn... 
