Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Poems - Page 240by Robert Lloyd - 1762 - 277 pagesFull view - About this book
| Thomas Warton - English poetry - 1753 - 168 pages
...their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth mall burn, Or bufy houfwife ply her evening care: No children run to lifp their fire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kifs to fhare. K Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke: How jocund... | |
| Thomas Warton - English poetry - 1753 - 164 pages
...lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth fhall burn, Or bufy houfwife ply her evening care : _STo children run to lifp their fire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kifs to fhare. K Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund... | |
| Thomas Warton - Dialect poetry, Scottish - 1753 - 164 pages
...their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth mall burn, Or bufy houfwife ply her evening care : No children run to lifp their fire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kifs to mare. K Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke :... | |
| Collection - 1758 - 394 pages
...their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth mail burn, Or bufy houfwife ply her evening care: No children run to lifp their fire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kifs to mare. Oft did the harveft to' their fickle yield, Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke ; How... | |
| Thomas Warton - Dialect poetry, Scottish - 1759 - 168 pages
...their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth mail burn, Or bufy houfewife ply her ev'ning care: No children run to lifp their fire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kifs to lliare. Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke ;... | |
| John Newbery - English poetry - 1762 - 292 pages
...lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth fhall burn, Or bofy houfewife ply her evening care : No children run to lifp their fire's return, Or climb his knees the envy'd kifs to fhare. Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe... | |
| English poetry - 1765 - 414 pages
...No children run to lifp their fire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kifs to mare. Oft * • Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow...broke ; 'How jocund did they drive their team afield I How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke ! Let not Ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their... | |
| Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1765 - 412 pages
...their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth mall burn, Or bufy houfwife ply her evening care : No children run to lifp their fire's return, Or climb his knees the .envied kifs to mare. Ofc Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1767 - 294 pages
...everting care : Nor children run to lifp their fire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kifs to fhaie* Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow...glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team afkld ! How bow'd the woods beneath their flurdy ftroke! Let not ambition meek their ufeful toil, Their... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1767 - 288 pages
...lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth fhall burn, Or bufy honfewife ply her evening care : Nor children run to lifp their fire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kifs to mare. Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke ; How... | |
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