 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1845 - 456 pages
...the envied kiss to share. 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. Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1845 - 454 pages
...the envied kiss to share. 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. Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1847 - 344 pages
...the envied kiss to share. 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 bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke 1 Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor... | |
 | Book - English poetry - 1847 - 216 pages
...the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team a-field ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
...shap'd the bending shoe. GAY'S 2. Oft did the harvest to the sickle yield, Their harrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team a-field, How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! GRAY'S Elegy. 3. He trudg'd along, unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went,... | |
 | Richard D. Brown - History - 1991 - 385 pages
...in a Country Church-yard": 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 bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 pages
...the envied kiss to share. 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 bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor... | |
 | Brian Short - History - 1992 - 260 pages
...the envied kiss to share. 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 bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubbom glebe has broke; 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... | |
 | Stephanie Sandler - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 388 pages
...the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, 25 Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; 30... | |
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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. 
